How do I type â?

Using keyboard layouts in Windows 10.0.27729.1000

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Use this page to find out how to type a character on given keyboard or how many keyboards contain given characters.

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The entered characters are as follows:

Hex	Dec	Name		Range	C#	HTML	URL
U+00E2	226	â	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX	C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (Latin-1 Supplement)	\u00e2	â	%C3%A2

System layouts

This text can be typed on 23 system layouts out of 217:

Vietnamese	2
Sami Extended Finland-Sweden Sami Extended Norway	CONTROLMENU+A
Finnish with Sami Norwegian with Sami Romanian (Programmers) Swedish with Sami	CONTROLMENU+Q
Romanian (Legacy) Romanian (Standard)	OEM 5
Turkish F Turkish Q	SHIFT+3, A
Albanian Czech Hungarian Polish (214) Serbian (Latin) Slovak Slovak (QWERTY) Slovenian Standard	CONTROLMENU+3, A
Greek Latin Sesotho sa Leboa Setswana United States-International	SHIFT+6, A
United Kingdom Extended	CONTROLMENU+6, A
English (India) Tamil Anjal	SHIFTCONTROLMENU+6, A
Colemak	CONTROLMENU+X, A
Danish Finnish Greenlandic Norwegian Spanish Swedish	SHIFT+OEM 1, A
Spanish Variation	CONTROLMENU+OEM PERIOD, A
Portuguese	SHIFT+OEM 2, A
Estonian	CONTROLMENU+OEM 2, A
Canadian French Canadian French (Legacy) Canadian Multilingual Standard French (Standard, BÉPO)	OEM 4, A
German German (IBM) German Extended (E1) German Extended (E2)	OEM 5, A
Czech Programmers	SHIFTCONTROLMENU+OEM 5, A
Belgian (Comma) Belgian (Period) Belgian French French (Legacy, AZERTY) French (Standard, AZERTY) Luxembourgish Swiss French Swiss German Wolof	OEM 6, A
Dutch	SHIFT+OEM 6, A
Greek (319) Latin	OEM 7, A
Portuguese (Brazil ABNT) Portuguese (Brazil ABNT2)	SHIFT+OEM 7, A
Faeroese Guarani Icelandic Latin American	CONTROLMENU+OEM 7, A
Czech (QWERTY)	SHIFTCONTROLMENU+OEM 7, A

Custom layouts

You can also use these custom-made keyboard layouts:

Czech Extended Chess Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+3, A
US International Extended Keyboard Layout	SHIFT+6, A
SuperLatin Keyboard Layout United Kingdom IndUni Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+6, A
US-International Scientific Keyboard Layout Английская (Типографская раскладка Ильи Keyboard Layout	SHIFTCONTROLMENU+6, A
Polski 2021 rozszerzony QWERTY Keyboard Layout Polski 2021 rozszerzony QWERTZ Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+Q, A
Norsk utvidet Juli2018 Keyboard Layout Norwegian - CHESS Keyboard Layout Teclado español extendido Keyboard Layout Teclado iberoamericano español Keyboard Layout Teclado iberoamericano português Keyboard Layout	SHIFT+OEM 1, A
Nuovo Italiano Keyboard Layout	SHIFT+OEM 3, A
German Extended Keyboard Layout German HTML-Programmer Keyboard Layout German International Keyboard Layout German UNZ 1 - Fraktur T Keyboard Layout	OEM 5, A
Italiano - Internazionale Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+OEM 6, A
Teclado paraguayo Keyboard Layout	SHIFT+OEM 7, A

Note that virtual keys are not always at the same place. For example, Q is next to the Tab key on US keyboard but next to the Caps Lock on French keyboard. You can click on each keyboard layout to find out how it defines the mapping.

Please note current limitations of the algorithm:

First found sequence is accepted, i.e. there might be better or more common ways of typing something on given keyboard.
It is greedy, i.e. if you have keys K, KA and AH, typing KAH will be deemed impossible as the KA key will be used and there is no H key.
It does not consider edits, i.e. it will claim A is impossible to type in the previous example, even though you could use AH and backspace.
It does not combine dead keys with ligatures, i.e. if you had ˇ + C = Č rule and there were only ˇ and CE keys, typing ČE would be deemed impossible.
It does not consider normalization equivalence, i.e. composite Ó cannot by typed using O and combining acute, either as a ligature or as separate keys.