Living Prague

Note: There is one rule to remember that will save a bit of time. All regular letters EXCEPT z and y are in identical locations. However, z and y are reversed. I use a standard qwerty keyboard set with UK English. Users with US keyboards may have slight differences.

If your problem is that you are trying to publish Czech characters on a webpage then put the following text into the HEAD tag of the html page. Note that this text must be enclosed by <> otherwise it could not be shown on this page:

meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250"

For researchers, use of Czech characters can be illuminating. The procedure for setting up Czech (qwerty) keyboard on your keyboard is below; In "XP" view:
From the "START" menu, select control panel.
From the "control panel", select Date,Time, Language and Regional Options.
From the "Date, Time etc panel", select "add other languages".
From "Regional and Language options", click "Details".
From the "Text Services and Input Languages" panel, click "add".
From the "Add Input language" panel use the dropdown menu to select "Czech" or Czech (Qwerty) if the option exists.
Click "Apply" or "OK"
The language has been added. Click on the language bar on your taskbar to switch between your regular language and Czech.

QWERTY Character	Combined with	Equals Czech Character
1	nothing	+
1	shift	1
1	Alt Gr	~
2	nothing	e
2	shift	2
2	Alt Gr	See Note below
3	nothing
3	shift	3
3	Alt Gr	See Note Below
4	nothing	c
4	shift	4
4	Alt Gr	See Note Below
5	nothing	r
5	shift	5
5	Alt Gr	See Note Below
6	nothing
6	shift	6
6	Alt Gr	See Note Below
7	nothing
7	shift	7
7	Alt Gr	See Note Below
8	nothing
8	shift	8
8	Alt Gr	See Note Below
9	nothing
9	shift	9
9	Alt Gr	See Note Below
0	nothing
0	shift	0
0	Alt Gr	See Note Below
-	nothing	=
-	shift	%
-	Alt Gr	See Note Below
=	nothing	See Note Below
=	shift	See Note Below
=	Alt Gr	See Note Below
[	nothing
[	shift	/
[	Alt Gr
]	nothing	)
]	shift	(
]	Alt Gr
;	nothing	u
;	shift	"
;	Alt Gr	$
'	nothing
'	shift	!
'	Alt Gr
#	nothing	See Note Below
#	shift	'
#	Alt Gr
,	nothing	,
,	shift	?
,	Alt Gr	<
.	nothing	.
.	shift	:
.	Alt Gr	>
/	nothing	-
/	shift	_
/	Alt Gr	*
\	nothing	\
\	shift	|
\	Alt Gr	nothing

NOTE: This is a double character option and requires two key depressions to see it.

Other special combinations:
(shift) - (=) i.e. shift and = together followed by the single letter d results in d.
(shift) - (=) i.e. shift and = together followed by the single letter n results in n.
(shift) - (=) i.e. shift and = together followed by the single letter t results in t.
(shift) - (=) and then (shift) - (s) = Capital
= (shift) - (u) i.e. press = on it's own then shift and u together = (Capital Czech U).

Other resources

Go to the site at Czech Wordbook and you'll find you can create correctly spelt Czech words using their special character selector. The search engine is no good for it but, you can copy the Czech text and paste it directly into the Czech search engine like Seznam for which the How to...guide was written. For those more generally interested in having a go at learning the language then try Local Lingo for basics and Bohemica.com for basics and more advanced.

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