Comments on: Make sure there’s no special character in your name if you’re planning to become a Tablet PC user

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:12:28 +0000

I admit defeat! You’re clearly out of luck with your name and Windows TIP. For me, switching the input language from English to German would work, don’t even have to switch to the virtual keyboard. Still, for you, switching to German for your last name, then to French for your first name obviously isn’t an option.

Sine I don’t like the process of switching too much at all, here’s another idea: http://www.juergentreml.de/archives/384

By: Tablet PC users, input language and special characters in your name - my way out! | treml::home

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:03:30 +0000

[...] those who read my post on tablet pen input regarding your name that possibly has a non-English character in it, e.g. German or French, here’s my current solution to the [...]

By: René Hüftlein

René Hüftlein — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:35:21 +0000

Haha!

You’re complaining about your little problem with your first name!… Just take my name for example: Ever tried to write an “é” and an “ü” in one sentence? Well, I think this combination is quite unusual, but for me, René Hüftlein, this is the most regular printout while starting or ending any document.

As I’m a “German-only” user there wasn’t that big problem to get my surname written soon. But with this french character “é” I had no chance! (As installing any French support for keyboard-layout is no option for a guy who’s first action on a new OS is to uninstall the English support…) Finally I resigned after trying to teach my XP Tablet PC Edition for more than 3 months. With Vista it took me just a few minutes to see that nothing changed in this case …

Now, as Vista users in genereal have to be quite flexible in handling their devices I’m perfectly comfortable with switching my handwriting tool into keyboard mode to type my first name same as I did the last 10 years just as simple as I never had a Tablet PC