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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:See also There are a number of methods to input Esperanto letters and text on a computer, e.g. when using a word processor or email. Input methods depend on a computer's operating system. Specifically the characters ĵ, ĝ, ĉ, ĥ, ŭ, ŝ can be problematic.

All modern email clients and servers accept Unicode text as UTF-8 in at least one of the following Content-Transfer-Encoding types: 8bit, quoted-printable, or base64. Esperanto text will normally be transmitted in UTF-8 with a Content-Transfer-Encoding of either 8bit (if the server supports it) or (failing that) quoted-printable.

An Esperanto locale would use a Шаблон:Citation needed span and a Шаблон:Citation needed span as in 1Шаблон:Thin space234Шаблон:Thin space567,890. Time and date format among Esperantists is not standardized, but of course "internationally unambiguous" formats such as 2020-10-11 (or 11-okt-2020) are preferred when the date is not spelled out in full (e.g., "la 11-a de oktobro 2020").

References

The Esperanto alphabet is part of the Latin-3 and Unicode character sets, and is included in WGL4. The code points and HTML entities for the Esperanto characters not part of the ISO basic Latin alphabet are:

Glyph Codepoint Name HTML entities
Ĉ U+0108 Latin capital letter c with circumflex Ĉ, Ĉ, Ĉ
ĉ U+0109 Latin small letter c with circumflex ĉ, ĉ, ĉ
Ĝ U+011C Latin capital letter g with circumflex Ĝ, Ĝ, Ĝ
ĝ U+011D Latin small letter g with circumflex ĝ, ĝ, ĝ
Ĥ U+0124 Latin capital letter h with circumflex Ĥ, Ĥ, Ĥ
ĥ U+0125 Latin small letter h with circumflex ĥ, ĥ, ĥ
Ĵ U+0134 Latin capital letter j with circumflex Ĵ, Ĵ, Ĵ
ĵ U+0135 latin small letter j with circumflex ĵ, ĵ, ĵ
Ŝ U+015C latin capital letter s with circumflex Ŝ, Ŝ, Ŝ
ŝ U+015D Latin small letter s with circumflex ŝ, ŝ, ŝ
Ŭ U+016C Latin capital letter u with breve Ŭ, Ŭ, Ŭ
ŭ U+016D Latin small letter u with breve ŭ, ŭ, ŭ

The code points and HTML entities for the English characters not used are:

Glyph Codepoint Name HTML entities
Q U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
q U+0071 LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
W U+0057 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
w U+0077 LATIN SMALL LETTER W
X U+0058 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X
x U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X
Y U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
y U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y

Microsoft Windows

Adjusting a keyboard to type Unicode is relatively simple (all Windows variants of the Microsoft Windows NT family, such as 2000 and XP, for example, support Unicode; Windows 9x does not natively support Unicode).

The Canadian Multilingual Standard layout is preinstalled in MS Windows.[1] The US international layout can type the circumflex over vowels, but needs to be modified to enable Esperanto letters. This can be done using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator or by using a layout provided for this purpose, e.g. EoKlavaro. EoKlavaro gives access also to many other European language characters.

Another more recent free download to adapt a Windows keyboard for Esperanto letters is Tajpi - Esperanto Keyboard for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 / 8 by Thomas James. As cons some configuration could suppress hotkeys, like Ctrl+W to close browser tab, it will type ŭ instead.

A simple and free utility with all the Esperanto keys already installed is called Esperanto keyboard layout for Microsoft Windows – (QWERTY version) this is available as a free download.

Файл:Klavararanĝo "Esperanto-Internacia".svg
"Esperanto-Internacia" keyboard layout

A similar tool is Ek, and is available without charge. You can download the keyboard by clicking on Instalilo: ek(version#)inst.exe. Ek uses the cx keying function to produce ĉ. It will work with most programs but there are some that it is not compatible with.

A commercial but still cheap tool is Šibboleth, a program that can produce every Latin character. It enables composition of ĝ etc. using the ^ deadkey (like for French letters), so one does not have to learn new key positions. The ŭ is produced by the combination u followed by #.

An "Esperanto-Internacia" or "Esperanto-International" keyboard is available that assigns the keys Q W X Y to Шаблон:Angle bracket and the sequences DY TX to Шаблон:Angle bracket.[2]

If one wants to use a text editor that is Esperanto-compatible, make sure it supports Unicode, as do Editplus (UTF-8), UniRed and Vim.

Linux

Since 2009 it has been very easy to add key combinations for accented Esperanto letters to one's usual keyboard layout, at least in Gnome and KDE. No download is required. The keyboard layout options can be modified under System Preferences. The options to choose are "Adding Esperanto circumflexes (supersigno)" and the appropriate keyboard layout (Qwerty or Dvorak). A third level shift key is also required: under "Key to choose 3rd level", e.g. LeftWin.[3]

In older systems it may be necessary to activate Unicode by setting the locale to a UTF-8 locale. There is a special eo_XX.UTF-8 locale available at Bertil Wennergren's home page, along with a thorough explanation of how one implements Unicode and the keyboard in Linux.

If the Linux system is recent, or kept updated, then the system is probably already working with Esperanto keys. For X11 and KDE, it's only necessary to switch to a keyboard layout that has Latin dead keys (for example, the "US International" keyboard), whenever the user wants to write in Esperanto. Some keyboards with dead keys are:

X11 standard mappings for Esperanto keys
Keys / Layout US International Brazilian ABNT2 Portuguese
ĉ shift-6 c shift-~ c shift-~ c
Ĉ shift-6 shift-c shift-~ shift-c shift-~ shift-c
ĝ shift-6 g shift-~ g shift-~ g
Ĝ shift-6 shift-g shift-~ shift-g shift-~ shift-g
ĥ shift-6 h shift-~ h shift-~ h
Ĥ shift-6 shift-h shift-~ shift-h shift-~ shift-h
ĵ shift-6 j shift-~ j shift-~ j
Ĵ shift-6 shift-j shift-~ shift-j shift-~ shift-j
ŝ shift-6 s shift-~ s shift-~ s
Ŝ shift-6 shift-s shift-~ shift-s shift-~ shift-s
ŭ altgr-shift-9 u altgr-shift-\ u altgr-shift-~ u
Ŭ altgr-shift-9 shift-u altgr-shift-\ shift-u altgr-shift-~ shift+u

Another option is to use a keyboard layout that supports the Compose key (usually mapped to the right alt or to one of the windows keys). Then, "compose-u u" will combine the character u with the breve, and "compose-shift-6 s" will combine the character s with the circumflex (assuming "shift-6" is the position of the caret).

In GNOME, there exists a separate keyboard layout for Esperanto, replacing unused characters in Esperanto with the non-ASCII characters. A separate keyboard layout for Esperanto is available in KDE, too.

If necessary, install and use high quality fonts that have Esperanto glyphs, like Microsoft Web core fonts (free for personal use) or DejaVu (The Bitstream Vera glyphs have the Bitstream Vera license and DejaVu extensions are in public domain).

There is also an applet available for the gnome-panel called "Character Palette" and one can add the following characters to a new palette for quick placement from their panel menu bar:

Ĉ ĉ Ĝ ĝ Ĥ ĥ Ĵ ĵ Ŝ ŝ Ŭ ŭ

The Character Palette applet makes for a quick and easy way to add Esperanto characters to a web browser or text document. One need only select their newly created palette and click a letter, and that letter will be on their system clipboard waiting to be pasted into the document.

macOS

On macOS systems Esperanto characters can be entered by selecting a keyboard layout from the "Input Sources" pane of "Language & Text" preferences, found in the "System Preferences" application, and the pre-installed ABC Extended keyboard layout can be used to type Esperanto's diacritics. When this layout is active, Esperanto characters can be entered using multiple keystrokes using a simple mnemonic device: Шаблон:Key press contains the caret character, which looks like a circumflex, so Шаблон:Key press places a caret over the following character. Similarly, Шаблон:Key press stands for breve, so Шаблон:Key press adds the breve mark over the next character.

One can also download an Esperanto keyboard layout package that will, once installed, function in the same way as other languages' keyboards. When installed, this gives users two different methods of typing. The first, Esperanto maintains a QWERTY layout, but switches the letters that are not used in Esperanto (q, w, y, and x) for diacritical letters and makes a u into a ŭ if it follows an a or an e. The second method, Esperanto-sc, is more familiar to QWERTY users and allows the user to type in most Latin-scripted languages and Esperanto simultaneously. It treats the keys that take diacritics (a, s, e, c, g, h, u, and j) as dead keys, if a combining character is pressed afterwards—usually the semicolon (;). Both methods are also available using the less common Dvorak Keyboard.

A table of the input methods:

Char Name Esperanto Esperanto-sc ABC Extended
Ĉ C-circumflex    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
ĉ c-circumflex    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
Ĝ G-circumflex    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
ĝ g-circumflex    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
Ĥ H-circumflex Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
ĥ h-circumflex Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
Ĵ J-circumflex    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
ĵ j-circumflex    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
Ŝ S-circumflex    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
ŝ s-circumflex    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
Ŭ U-breve after pressing Шаблон:Key press or Шаблон:Key press, Шаблон:Key press will make a Û after pressing Шаблон:Key press or Шаблон:Key press, Шаблон:Key press will make a Û Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press
ŭ u-breve after pressing Шаблон:Key press or Шаблон:Key press, Шаблон:Key press will make a û after pressing Шаблон:Key press or Шаблон:Key press, Шаблон:Key press will make a û Шаблон:Key press    Шаблон:Key press

Swedish Esperantists using Mac OS X can use the Finnish Extended layout, which comes with the OS. Finnish has the same alphabet and type layout as Swedish; the Finnish Extended layout adds functionality just like ABC Extended, only using other key combinations (the breve appears when one types |Шаблон:Key press and the circumflex when one types |Шаблон:Key press).

Similarly, British users may use the Irish Extended layout, which differs from the ABC Extended keyboard layout in several ways (preserving the simple option+vowel method of applying acute accents, important for the Irish language, and the £ sign on shift-3 like the UK layout), but uses the same "dead-keys" for modifiers as ABC Extended for Esperanto characters.

In OS X it is also possible to create one's own keyboard layouts, so it is relatively easy to have more convenient mappings, like for example one based on typing an x after the letter.

There is still no integrated solution for typing Esperanto-characters with AZERTY keyboards. Dead-circumflex followed by a consonant may or may not work for ĉ ĝ ĥ ĵ ŝ; and if nothing else avails, ù is a tolerable if imperfect approximation for ŭ.

See also

References

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External links

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  3. How to type in Esperanto in Linux, Donald Rogers, Esperanto sub la Suda Kruco, p 8-11, Sep 2010