How did you type Old English?!?!

[Nerienda]

So, you noticed all the Old English/Saxon characters: þ  Æ  ā  ī  Þ  æ  ē

And you are wondering how I got them typed in here? Good question.    I had to look it up when I was making this forum.  I found several good pages about Old English character maps for your keyboard and HTML codes for Old English (ever tried to type a Æ into a web page?)


Old English character maps (how to type Old English into your posts)
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/charmap.html


Old English HTML references
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/oegermanic.html#htmlcodes
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/oegermanic.html

So there you go, piece of cake! 

[Mildreð]

Thanks for posting this, Nerienda!  It worked a charm.

[Mildreð]

This is a test of the OE input system  Mildreð  þ  Ð

[Chris]

I'd love to know how to do this on a laptop (no separate number keypad).

[Mildreð]

I'm using a program called PopCharX on my MacBook which allows me to open a popup window containing the characters (and many others for other languages)