Typing characters with umlauts and other accents in Evernote

[aeWinEver 0]

Hello,

I recently installed Evernote 4.2.3.2 on my Windows XP computer at home. I also run it (Evernote 4.0.1) on my iTouch 3. When I type a note using a bluetooth keyboard on my iTouch, I can easily type in accented characters like u with umlaut or e with an accent using standard keyboard shortcuts.

When I try to type the same characters into a note on my Windows system, I cannot produce them, either with keyboard shortcuts (ones that work in MS Word for example) or even ASCII codes. I can view accented characters in notes that were created on my iTouch, and I can paste accented characters into notes from other documents and see them. But I cannot type them into a note directly on my Windows system.

I must be missing something very simple, because it seems unlikely that one couldn't do this. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!

[engberg 89]

Does this have the same problem when you type in the body of a note and in the title of a note, or does it work correctly in one place and not in the other?

[aeWinEver 0]

It is the same in subject line or in note text. I can't seem to type an accented character in directly.

Example, if I create 'ü' in Textpad by typing SH+CTL+:, u, I can copy and paste that ü into a note, but I cannot create it in either the subject line or body of the text directly using those same key combinations.

Update: a possibly related issues I notice: if I search my existing notes (creating on iTouch, with accented characters) for the character 'ü', the search finds only instances of 'u' and overlooks the 'ü's that are present in the notes.

[engberg 89]

Thanks for the report, I'll pass that to QA.

[emerick 155]

I think it's a bug that we don't handle the Alt+xxxx keycodes properly; we'll look into that. However, if you have the ability to install the United States - International keyboard layout on your PC, it provides a much more convenient way to enter accented characters and EN4 does support that method. You can find more details about using it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560

[Kiran Vajja 0]

I have tried the international keyboard option too. I can type the accents in MS Word after the installation of the international key board but not in evernote. I have EN5 on my machine.

[absallo 0]

i have a similar problem. i can paste accented characters into Evernote, but there doesn't seem to be any way to type them directly into the note itself, which is pretty frustrating. is there something i'm missing here?

[jefito 5,589]

It's an OS thing. See http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html for some approaches.