[ale] 2nd try. First never made it. Looking for a simple method to generate Spanish language characters.

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 09:44 -0400, Joshua Chase wrote:
> Sure, on any full keyboard, make sure NumLock is on, then pres ALT+164
> (hold down the ALT key, and while holding press 1,6,4) on the
> dedicated number keypad. Doing it on the top set of numbers (the ones
> above the letters) won't work.  Here's a short list of all the accents
> and special characters:

This is a non-standard extension to Windows.  :-)

You can, however, enter actual Unicode code points under GNOME, if
desired.  The keyboard shortcut is <LControl>+<LShift>+u, and then the
Unicode code point.  So, if you press <LControl>+<LShift>+u, then let go
of all three, and type 3c0, you get π.  :-)  Note that this is also a
non-standard extension, but (IMHO) it should be the standard, because it
makes sense.

However, if you frequently need to use certain accented characters,
learning the (only minorly different) us-international keyboard layout
is far easier to do than enter Unicode code points every time.  I only
use Unicode entry for certain characters that I do not have mapped to my
keyboard (such as the em dash, or the interrobang).

	--- Mike

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