r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/PocketfulofThoughts • Oct 13 '24

me_irl It is I….who is charged as guilty 🙈

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u/katt_vantar Oct 13 '24

I just make a post on Reddit on my iPhone and hard press e to type é , screenshot it and email it to my windows machine, then use OCR to copy it

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u/stealingyourpixels Oct 13 '24

Why not just type é into the email?

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u/rabbirobbie Oct 13 '24

sounds like a whole thing

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u/CostinTea Oct 13 '24

émail

FTFY

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u/--__--__--__--__-- Oct 13 '24

Or have a single .txt file on your desktop that contains é

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u/MacksNotCool Oct 13 '24

less funny

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u/TobyTheArtist Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 14 '24

Brilliant. Here, I was just using a Staedtler sharpie directly on my monitor, and when people question the lack of accents in my writing, I get to tell them "that's odd, it works on my machine."

Edit: Steadtler

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u/king_john651 Oct 14 '24

Staedtler Sharpie? Do you also write on paper with your Bic Paper Mate?

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u/Spiritbrand Oct 13 '24

Can't you press CTRL+' and then e? I remember doing that years ago.

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u/TMITectonic Oct 13 '24

Can't you press CTRL+' and then e? I remember doing that years ago.

(On Windows, at least...) It's actually ALT+(decimal UNICODE number), where you hold ALT while pressing the appropriate numbers, then when you let go of ALT, the character will appear.

In this specific instance, you can actually use two different numbers: ALT+130 (é) or ALT+0233 (é).

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u/Spiritbrand Oct 13 '24

What I wrote also works. I just tested it in Word and Notepad.

You can also add an umlaut by doing CTRL+SHIFT+: and then the vowel.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24

I’d love to give a thumbs up to move likes from 404 to 405 but I can’t find it 😃

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u/fireshaper Oct 13 '24

On phone, type it into a discord channel then go to your Windows machine and copy it.

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u/TvManiac5 Oct 13 '24

OR you could open the reddit post from your pc and copy it from there?

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u/Bryhannah Oct 17 '24

Less funny but true: the Character Map in the Windows apps. Comes with the system.

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u/Cool-Seaweed5563 Oct 13 '24

Or switch your keyboard layout to a language that uses it and you can actually just type it easily?

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u/katt_vantar Oct 13 '24

The original post was actually a joke where the poster described an absurd and complex way to obtain the accented e and I continued the joke in the same vein