Scotting Gaelic diacritics: How to Type

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Accents are very important in written Gaelic, oftentimes the only difference between two words is an accent mark, yet the words can have very distinct meanings.

The easiest way to type them is by using the international keyboard layout through the Windows control panel. If you do not know how to set this up, or don't feel comfortable tinkering with system settings, don't fret, you can still type the accents without the need for altering your system's configuration.

To type each individual character, just hold down the alt key, and press the numbers that follow them on the list below, in succession, on the number pad (to the right of the arrow keys).

À - 0192
à - 0224
È - 0200
è - 0232
É - 0201
é - 0233
Ì - 0204
ì - 0236
Ò - 0210
ò - 0242
Ó - 0211
ó - 0243
Ù - 0217
ù - 0249

That is the extent of accented characters used in Gaelic. Actually, the acute accents on the E and O have been abolished, but they may still be seen in older texts.

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