If you are using Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7, all the accented characters used in Welsh and others from European languages are already there in most of the fonts that are on the computer; AcenSyml 2.1 (easy accent) makes it easy for you to type them from the keyboard in easy-to-remember key press combinations in versions of Windows up to and including Windows XP, but it does not work with the newer applications such as Word in Windows 7.

You can set up your computer to use the Welsh Keyboard Driver that is already available in Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Click here if you want to find out more about AcenSyml 2.1

The Windows Welsh Keyboard driver scans the keys and looks for the particular combinations that produce the accented characters as follows:

Keys held down	Key pressed	Release keys then press	Letter obtained
		Vowel a,e,i,o,u,w,y A,E,I,O,U,W,Y	Vowel with a circumflex (to bach)
		Vowel a,e,i,o,u,w,y A,E,I,O,U,W,Y	Vowel with acute accent
	(none)	Vowel a,i,o,u,w,y A,I,O,U,W,Y	Vowel with acute accent (not e,E)
	(none)
		Vowel a,e,i,o,u,w,y A,E,I,O,U,W,Y	Vowel with diaresis (umlaut)
(none)		Vowel a,e,i,o,u,w,y A,E,I,O,U,W,Y	Vowel with grave accent
(none)
(none)

 Summary

Circumflex (To bach)	<ctrl><alt><6> then vowel
Acute accent (Acen ddyrchafedig)	<ctrl><alt> with vowel (not é or É)
Grave (Acen ddisgynedig)	<`>- grave accent key - to the left of the number 1 key) then vowel, (No <ctrl><alt>)
Diaeresis (Didolnod - Umlaut)	<ctrl><alt><2> then vowel

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