Installing software keyboards in Windows Vista:
     To choose additional keyboard layouts in Windows Vista, go to the Control Panel, choose the Regional & Language Options. When that opens, choose the tab "Keyboards and Languages", then click on Change Keyboards.
In the "Text Services and Input Languages" dialog box, click Add.
Scroll down to the language of your choice, expand it by clicking on the "+" sign, similarly expand the keyboards list.
Check the box for the keyboard software you want to have available. (for example "English US International"), click OK.
Then back in "Text Services", from the drop-down menu you can choose it as default if you wish. Click  Apply,  then OK. 
                                              
     You switch back and forth between different languages via the language icon in the bar at the bottom right of the screen (at the left end of that bar). Just to the right of that there may appear a small keyboard icon, which you can use to switch between different keyboard software used for the same language.
     In the US International keyboard, you use the right-hand ALT key and the keys ´ " ` ^ ~ plus letters to get many accented characters.
     Or in Microsoft Office Word 2007, you can use the Insert bar > "Insert Symbol" (Greek Omega) > "More symbols" > and then select the font from the scrolling menu. Then you can see a scrolling table of all the characters in the font.

     To install a font in Windows Vista, go to the Help system provided by Windows or by your manufacturer. This may appear in the startup listing (lower left corner of your screen), where you can click on the "Help and Support" item. Type "Install Font" into the Search Help box, and click on the appropriate icon for searching (a magnifying glass). Click on the obviously relevant items, and follow the instructions which appear on screen. (For other versions of Windows, there will be similar kinds of help available.)

The following instructions concern keyboarding of pre-Unicode fonts in Windows98 and Windows95, so users can make full use of the software support they already have on their installation disks, and full use of the facilities provided in Microsoft Word.

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First install your fonts in the normal way. In the Control Panel use the Fonts utility, click on the ADD button, select fonts to be added by browsing to wherever you have them on hard disk or floppy disk or CD. Click OK and close the Fonts utility.
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For Windows 95 and Windows98, you may use the USA International keyboard, using the Right-Hand ALT key for many symbols, and for accented letters touching first the apostrophe, Shift-Apostrophe, Grave ` Shift-Grave ~ and Shift-6 ^ keys, followed by the vowel or shifted vowel keys. (If you are using French, German, or other keyboard layouts, see the comments below.)
To activate the "United States - International" keyboard, go into the Control Panel, the Keyboard module. Choose the "Language" tab on top. (This is for keyboard layouts in software - the other tab is for choice of physical hardware keyboard, and is not relevant to this discussion). You should see a line which has on the left (Language) "En English (United States)" and has on the right (Layout) "United States". Double-click on that right-hand portion, and you will see a scrolling list of possibilities. Choose "United States - International", then click on "Set as Default" and on "Apply". The keyboard in question is not simply the "United States" layout, which will not allow you to type accented vowels. It is "United States - International".
If one of the above steps is impossible because the appropriate line is not available or some button is greyed out, it probably means the software keyboard "United States - International" is not installed in your computer's hard drive. In that case, make certain you have your original CD or floppy disks for Windows 95 or 98 available. In the same window of the Keyboard module which we have been discussing (inside the Control Panel), click on the button "Add", then select the "United States - International" layout while following the directions which appear on screen, then finally click on "Set as Default" and "Apply". This should complete the software keyboard layout installation.
We normally include with each font a list of the accented-vowel letter codes which are needed for a particular font set. Whatever way you key those codes in Latin letter fonts, you key the corresponding letters of a non-Latin alphabet the same way. With French, German, or other keyboard layouts which use accented Latin letters extensively, there will be ways of activating these letters appropriate to those keyboard layouts, different from the keyings used on the "United States - International" keyboard layout. The match of the Latin letters to the letters of a non-Latin alphabet will remain the same, whatever keyboard layout you are using. You can also use any of these other keyboard layouts if the letters you most need are available that way, and you can use any of these in Windows 2000, ME, or XP as well.
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A typical problem which is easily overcome:

"Smart Quotes" in many wordprocessors will convert the apostrophe and double quote to their curly forms. You can disable this for special uses . In some word processors, a "Preferences" dialog box, perhaps under the "Edit" menu, will permit you to turn "Smart Quotes" on and off. In some versions of Wordperfect, go to the Tools Menu, Quick-Correct, Options, Typeset Quotes.) Or look up "Smart Quotes" in your reference manual of your application program such as a word processor.

A reminder: No knowledge derived in any way from our fonts may be used in creating any competing product, whether sold commercially or not. See the license agreement with the order form for more specifics.

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Windows98 Obscure Character Codes -- Advanced techniques
The English USA International keyboard supports keying of special European letters, mostly accented vowels and åÅæÆøØ and çÇñÑand Icelandic thorn and edh and Czech y-acute and superscripts 1,2,3 and fractions 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and some symbols ®µ¢©£€¥§¶° ‘’ «»¬. Letters or symbols in your new fonts which are assigned to these same codes are keyed in the same ways. For the following, we assume you have completed the installation above.

Some character codes are not easily accessed in Windows98 even using the English USA International software keyboard. For those listed below, another method must be used.

(1) You can use a sample document if such a document is provided on disk together with your fonts, and simply select and copy whatever character you need, and insert it into your own document where you want it, then change it into the font you need. This should always work, but inserts always in 12-point size.

(2) Or on physical keyboards which have a Numeric Keypad, you can hold down the LEFT-hand ALT key while keying numbers on the Numeric Keypad, beginning with a zero "0" as shown, and then release the ALT key (you cannot use the numbers keys of the main keyboard). On portables, hold down the Control-ALT keys while keying those numbers.
Character codes below are identified by the symbols they carry in standard Times New Roman fonts.
In your specialty fonts, other letters or symbols may have these same codes. You key them the same.
Ÿ 0159      œ 0156      s-caron 0154      ª 0170
ƒ 0131      Œ 0140      S-caron 0138      º 0186
· 0183      • 0149      † 0134      ™ 0153
‚ 0130      ‹ 0139      ‡ 0135      ‰ 0137
„ 0132      › 0155      ± 0177
¸ 0184 (cedilla)      ¯ 0175 (macron)
˜ 0152 (tilde)      ˆ 0136 (circumflex)
` 096 (grave) (also keyed ` and then spacebar)
´ 0180 (acute) (also keyed RightAlt-' and then spacebar)
¨ 0168 (umlaut, diaeresis) (also keyed RightAlt-Shift-" and then spacebar)

(3) Or on either portables or other Windows98 machines, you can do the following:
Click on Start (lower left corner, taskbar). Drag to Programs. Drag to Accessories. Drag to System Tools. Click on Character Map. In Character Map, you choose in the drop-down menu to view normal alphabetics instead of "symbol" fonts. You can leave Ariel as the font selected, or you can choose another font from the drop-down font list by clicking on the arrow and scrolling. Double-click on one or more characters from the large display, they will appear in the small line to the upper right. Click on Copy, and on Close. Find the place you want to insert these characters in your document, and Paste them there (from the Edit menu). Then select them and change them to whatever font you wish. Using this method, you can of course create a sample document (method (1) above) from which you can copy and paste whenever you wish. After you have created such a sample document, lock it to prevent accidental changes, so you will always be able to use it.

(4) If you use some of these special characters often, you may be able to assign them to some particular key combination, even using function keys. Since this depends on Macros and on the application software you may be using, we do not in general provide specifics for this last. You can consult the makers of software which permits such function key assignment.
In Microsoft Word, there is in the "Tools" menu an item "Autocorrect". Go there, and notice that the default autocorrect "feature" will replace (TM) as you type with the trademark symbol ™. You may wish to add items there. For example we can suggest the following key sequences to get the special characters which are not directly keyable. To insert the special symbols in the dialog box, use method (1) above.
Ÿ |Y|      œ \oe\      s-caron \s^\      ª \a\
ƒ \f\      Œ |OE|      S-caron |S^|      º \o\
· \.\      • \°\      † \t\      ™ (TM)
‚ \,\      ‹ \<\      ‡ \tt\      ‰ \%\
„ \,,\      › \>\      ± \+\
¸ \ç\      ˜ \~\      ˆ \^\      ¯ \-\
For Non-Roman alphabets used in a Roman system, you may also wish to turn off certain "features" such as "Replace straight quotes with curly quotes", or "Capitalize first letter of sentences", or "Correct two initial capitals". To Undo such special formatting immediately after it occurs, press the backspace key. This is probably the easiest method, once you learn to do it. Even for Swedish or Norwegian, you may wish to turn off the Autocorrect feature which replaces the letter "i" between spaces with "I".