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Jaspell Jaldi: Roman Scripts with Accents

The Problem

West European languages are written in Roman script as covered by the standard ASCII character set which is adopted as the basis for international communication. These include many characters with various accents, diphthongs and ß.
The problem is that there are not enough keys on your keyboard to enable all the characters to be reached just by pressing a single key.

The Solution

Jaspell Jaldi lets you type, add, change, or clear accents like in àáâãäåæçðñ and different characters like ß:-
(a) Within 1-9 seconds (you set how long) of typing a character you can add the accent by typing a single number.
      For example, one of the methods gives a1=à; a2=ä; a3=á; A3=Á; d3=ð, and so on.
(b)  For German, you can choose automatic conversion to ä, ö, or ü, when you  type ae, oe, ue. You can set sz so as to give ß.
(c)  No guide is needed for such a simple system. It is easy to make a note that the Ctrl key with 0 to 9 give the accent or other modified forms as in exemplified in:- clear (a), à, ä, á, æ(ß), ç, â, ø, å, ã, respectively. However, from Menu "Mode" you can choose to display a panel showing which suffixed number produces which accent.
(d)  Our various procedures and fonts enable Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Chinese Mandarin Pinyin, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Færoese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Lappish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
(e)  We have provided a font for West African languages like Yoruba, but we have not created a special typing programme for it.

Arrangement of the Roman Scripts

The European languages using Roman characters - some of which are accented - are arranged in 4 Roman groups.  These are called Latin 1, Latin 2, Latin 3, and Latin 4.  In addition Jaspell have created what they call Roman 5 and Roman 6 to cover Vietnamese and Pinyin, the accented Roman script used to represent the sounds of Mandarin Chinese.