International keyboards?

[draggar]

Is there such a ting as an international keyboard - one that has keys (or easy key combinations) for at least most of the western alphabets (for example, including ñ, ¿, ç, ó, È, É, etc.. (so I am not searching though ASCII charts all the time)?

It does not have to be wireless.

 

[katherine]

Not sure, but I think you need French AND Spanish layouts for these particular characters.

I personally have 3 physical USB keyboards plugged to my computer, it's easy to switch from one to another.

A virtual keyboard (software) can help too.
Like this one: http://gate2home.com/

 

[Gerry]

If I am not mistaken, you can set your keyboard default to different languages using Microsoft.

 

[draggar]

Not sure, but I think you need French AND Spanish layouts for these particular characters.

I personally have 3 physical USB keyboards plugged to my computer, it's easy to switch from one to another.

A virtual keyboard (software) can help too.
Like this one: http://gate2home.com/

Not a bad site and I have a feeling multiple keyboards may be my only option.

If I am not mistaken, you can set your keyboard default to different languages using Microsoft.

Yeah but then I wouldn't know what I'm typing!

 

[RTM.net]

As mentioned above there are numerous software keyboards (as well as built-in Windows keyboard layouts) and here's an example of a physical multilingual keyboard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Canadian_Multilingual_Standard

I've been using a (English & French) multilingual keyboard for over 15 years and it STILL drives me nuts switching languages (in Windows) and trying to remember where critical (/ @ \) symbols are........

G'luck!

Rob