Has anyone already mentioned Alt 0226 - â also 0234 ê
I can’t remember how to assign these to actual keys on the keyboard, so you don’t have to remember the numbers, but you can do that or you used to be able to program some of the keys to be whatever you wanted them to be.
I suspect these tips have all been done before, but just in case here is a link to lots of useful Welsh and Cornish codes and tips for doing things in lots of different ways - includes Middle Welsh characters as well!
Step 1: Download Autohotkey from https://autohotkey.com/ and run the exe file: (Note: looks fine to me, but at your own risk).
Step 2: Right Click on desktop: then scroll to New: then scroll to Autohotkeyscript
Step 3: An icon will appear on the desktop. Change the file name to whatever you prefer.
Step 4: Right click on the icon and then click edit.
Step 5: Notepad should open. Delete the text in the note pad file.
Step 6: paste this string into the notepad file:
!+a::
Send, â
Return
!+e::
Send, ê
Return
!+i::
Send, î
Return
!+o::
Send, ô
Return
!+u::
Send, û
Return
!+w::
Send, ŵ
Return
!+y::
Send, ŷ
Return
Step 7: save the file
Step 8: click on it and it will now be active.
Thanks - I have also just managed to program my keyboard to put the tot bach (circumflex) on top of a e i o and u when I use shift+alt+a, etc. (added to previous post)
I still cannot find anyway of typing powers of 10 other than 2 and 3!! OK, I’ve retired and when I was a chemist, 6.022 x 10 - oh no! What worked yesterday no longer does!! I tried 10 to the 23rd and kept leaping out of SSiW into my home page!! I give up!!!
Neither do I because I didn’t reprogram, as I thought typing…ahah… foumd the answer, started to type Alt0176 and nothing happened when I hit 0. Tried NumLk first and that worked, so 10²³!!! Geronimo!! I can now type Avogadro’s number should I ever need to again! (Unlikely!) 6.022 x10²³!!! Bliss! Joy!! Don’t know how the number lock went wrong but that’s life!!
Avogradro has migrated to John’s Outside thread, but here seems a better place to ask you, @aran if your study of how memory works can work out why after at least 40+ years since I actually practised chemistry, I should see milltir² m³ and think, “Well at least I can type 10²³.”, and then, “er… Oh, Avogardro’s number!” I had to Google it to make sure, but I knew it was 6,0something and thought 2, so not bad after about 42 years. But how come? Memory is weird! I forget things I have been using much more recently than that!! In early 1972 I went back to London specifically to look after Health Physics and never opened a chemistry book again!
So, I have a probably strange one, and I’m sorry if this is a repeat question, but what would the words for poop and pee be? It seems like a weird thing to need to talk about, but I have a dog and these things tend to come up eventually.
In a household here with two dogs and two kids, at the moment it just tends to be ‘pŵ’ and ‘pi’ (or pi-pi) - you’ll also hear ‘baw ci’ specifically for dog poo - and ‘piso’ in general (not very polite) terms, like ‘piso dryw yn y môr’…
Oo, interesting! Round here it seems to be the general word to such an extent that there is no other version needed, as it were. Just a neutral word for it, used in any circumstances with anyone (where you would talk about such a thing!)
(As a (possibly) amusing illustration, I remember my father telling me that when he was a young child, a nurse was telling him to give a urine sample. In English she said - “you just need to… erm… wel, pisio yn y botel…”
Ah, thanks for the insight. @owainlurch, too. I realise I talk to the dog a lot when I’m walking with him, so I might as well talk to him in Welsh hah.
An unrelated question, too: a friend of mine is trying to name something hes making “Under land” but in Welsh. When he puts it in Google translate, it says “O Dan dir”, and when he types “under land” it just says “Dan dir”. Is the O used for proper nouns or is Google just being weird?
That’s a bit of a tricky one - ‘o dan’ is how you’d usually say something similar to ‘under’, but you can just go to ‘dan [x]’ in an adjectival kind of way - so scuba diving is usually ‘nofio tan-ddwr’ rather than ‘nofio o dan dwr’…
What’s he trying to say with the ‘Under land’? What’s the context?
Interestingg. I think I sort of get it. Well, maybe. If I’m understanding right… names of things that include the word “dan” come with the O and …you know what, I started typing this and the more I try to explain it to see if I understand, the more I think I don’t get it.
He’s using it as a name for an subterranean city he’s making in a game, if that helps at all. I know automatic translators can’t be trusted for everything, and it seemed weird to me that capitalization is what triggered the change and it made me wonder how O was typically used vs when it was left out.
to @tatjana
testing: 104 105 106 107 108 109 1010 Well, that failed!! Clearly I can’t copy superscripts into here!! In my mailing program and when sent to Janet’s tablet, they were superscripts!! I think it is just a good thing this isn’t either a maths or chemistry Forum!
One for the techies. I have just bought a new phone (Samsung with android OS) and didn’t realise that android OS doesn’t have Welsh language regional settings. On my last phone, I could set a lot of the features to Welsh and had the lock screen showing the date and time in Welsh. Is there a way to do this on Android or is there an app or apps out there that could do that?.
Really unhappy with my phone saying Tues 16 August - it just seems wrong. Just tried the voice search on Google and it’s hilarious if you speak Welsh to it - just tried Siarad rhywbeth yn gymraeg and it gave me Jared rubus and Cwmbran.
Any advice on how to cymraegify my phone would be appreciated.
