Breton

Almost all applications support Breton accents. Guidelines for typing and using accents are given below.  if you need to refer to additional characters, look under the Accents tab.

About Breton

Breton is a Celtic language spoken in the Brittany region on the west coast of France. It is closely related to Welsh and Cornish and more distantly related to Irish and Gaelic. Breton does not have as many accented charcters as French.

Breton Links

• Kerkarver Online Breton Lessons
• Wikipedia Breton Language
• FAQ on soc.culture.breton (some content in French)
• CNN Breton Fights to Save Language

Windows Alt Codes

In Windows, combinations of the ALT key plus a numeric code from the number keypad can be used to type a non-English character in any Windows application.

See the detailed instructions on the ALT Code How To for complete information on implementing the code. Additional options for entering accents in Windows are also listed in the Accents section of this Web site.

Windows International Keyboard Codes

In order to use these codes you must activate the U.S. international keyboard.

Once the U.S. International keyboard has been activated, you can use the codes below.

Accented Vowels

This list is organized by Accent type. The sample shows a letter
with that accent, and the Notes present any special comments about
using that accent.

For the Template, the symbol "V" means type any vowel.

Example 1: To type lower case ù – Type the grave key (`), then U.  For capital Ù, type the grave, then capital U.

Consonants and Puncutation

For these codes, you must make sure you use the Alt key on the right side of the keyboard.

Note: that there is no shortcut for the joined O-E.

Macintosh Accent Codes

Accented Vowels

The method is to hold the first two keys down simultaneously, release, then
type the vowel you wish to be accented. For the Template, the symbol "V" means any vowel.

Example 1: To input the lower case ñ, hold down the Option key, then the N key. Release both keys then type lowercase n.
Example 2: To input the capital Ñ, hold down the Option key, then the N key. Release all three keys then type capital N.

Other Characters

Web Development

Historical Encodings

Unicode (utf-8) is the preferred encoding for Web sites. However, the following historic encodings may still be encountered.

• iso-8859-1 (Latin 1),
• iso-8859-15 (adds support for the euro (€)
• win-1252

If possible, you should transition to Unicode.

Note: There is a "Celtic" Latin-8/Latin-14 standard (ISO-8859-14), but it has been supplanted by Unicode. Few applications support this standard.

Language Tags

Language Tags allow browsers and other software to process text more efficiently. They are also important for optimal screen reader accessibility. The following codes represent different stages of Breton.

• br (Modern Breton)
• xbm (Middle Breton)
• obt (Old Breton)

HTML Entity Codes

Use these codes to input accented letters in HTML. For instance, if you
want to type yezhoù you would type yezhù.

The numbers in parentheses are the numeric codes assigned in Unicode encoding. For instance, because ù is number 249, yezhúcan also be used to input yezhoù. These numbers are also used with the Windows Alt
codes listed above.

Links

Breton Language

• Kerkarver Online Breton Lessons
• Wikipedia Breton Language
• FAQ on soc.culture.breton (some content in French)
• CNN Breton Fights to Save Language

Linux/Unix

• Linux Accent Codes (English)
• Accents on Sun Stations (in French)

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