Joe,

I have been following this with interest. I am not fluent, in fact I am barely competent. My grandparents were native speakers and I got a fair exposure and still study it. Phillipa is right on the mark (given that she is a native speaker, of course she would be)with regard to the diacriticals. One can use slashes (ex: ce/ad) but when you get into an extended dialogue, such as Annaroi and Phillipa have from time to time you can see the problem.

Phillipa, I tried to change my keyboard to Irish as its base language and still couldna get it to insert fada's. Can you give me any help? I would like to be able to switch it back and forth when needed.

All the best,

Mick