AccentPad

About AccentPad: Our Data and Editors

AccentPad is made by The AccentPad editorial team. It is a copy pad and reference for letters with accents: copy a letter in one tap, then learn how to type it yourself on the device in front of you.

Where do the facts come from?

Every data block on a letter page (languages, sounds, words, names and places) is built by a script from an open dataset, not written from memory, and each letter page names the datasets behind what it shows in a Data line at its end; the full list, with licences, is below. Codes are computed from the standards themselves: Alt codes from the Windows-1252 code page, UTF-8 bytes and escapes from the Unicode code point. Shortcuts come from vendor documentation, as described below.

Counts such as "used in so many languages" are computed from these datasets when the site is built, so they change only when the data does. Dictionary claims about meaning or pronunciation cite the dictionary, such as Larousse, in the page's references.

Which datasets is AccentPad built from?

Each letter page ends with a Data line naming the datasets behind it. This is the full list: every file the build fetches, who made it, the licence its publisher states and the day it was last retrieved.

AccentPad adapted this data: it keeps only the entries for the letters in its catalogue, ranks and filters them, and reformats them into the lists and tables on each page. Each dataset is provided by its publisher as is, without warranty, under the licence linked on its card.

How are the shortcuts checked?

Every keyboard shortcut carries two fields. source is the vendor's own documentation page (Apple, Microsoft or Google), checked to answer when the shortcut was added, and each shortcut row on a letter page links to it. verified says how the shortcut is backed. doc-only means the method is taken from that vendor page and has not been tested on a device. doc-mechanism means the vendor page documents the mechanism, such as a dead key, press and hold or a search by name, and the keys or letter shown are applied from it; an optional note after it says what that rests on, such as "keys per US/ABC layout" or "popup set per US layout". No shortcut on the site is marked as tested on a device yet.

Windows Alt codes are computed from the Windows-1252 code page, never copied from other sites, so a letter outside that code page gets no Alt code at all rather than a wrong one.

Who is behind AccentPad?

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