Hello,
Periodically this topic always comes up.
In old postings you can find a lot of info.
Personally I don't use an Icelandic font, because
my keyboard isn't Icelandic.
á é í ý ú ó Á É etc..
are all quite easy to make on a normal keyboard
without any special fonts. You just prefix the ´ sign
and then type the letter. How to prefix depends
on keyboard. Do you have the [Alt Gr] key?
Edh and Thorn are however not built in and have to be accessed
by means of the [Alt] key. e.g. <press Alt key> 0 1 5 4 <relase Alt
Key> gives þ = 'thorn' etc.
For Edh use 0240 etc.. Any way, these are the standard
ISO char codes, and can be found in any printer manual.

Good Luck!
Xigung

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Lewis, Raymond J."
<lewisrj@...> wrote:

> Thank's to some advice - I can now read all the odd little

characters

> coming across my screen these days. For others who may be stumbling
> around, change your text editors encoding to Western European

(ISO).

>
> However, this will do nothing to improve your chances of entering

in

> these characters. I'm using, at this computer, Windows 95. To Fix

Things

> Up, I went to the Keyboard section of the Control Panel and, within

the

> Language tab, requested to Add a language - then added Icelandic

from the

> list. You can then choose whatever short-cut keys you wish in order

to

> switch between your language settings (this you can freely do). You

will

> find that the keyboard is not as it appears - so here is the

translation:

>
> á,é,í,ó,ú,ý = ' (single quotation) + a,e,i,o,u,y
> ä,ë,ï,ö,ü = ~ (tilde) + a,e,i,o,u -or- ö = - (dash)
> þ = /
> ð = [
> æ = ;
>
> There are a few other oddities to be gotten used to - but these are

the

> important ones.
>
> Now I can stop harping about html!