how to type special characters?

[James Wilkinson]

Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type
> characters not on a keyboard by using the <alt> key but for the life
> of me I can not find it.
> 
> e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be <alt> apostrophe i.

You might find
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ExtraCharacters (which
is a general discussion of entering extra characters in Gnome and Linux)
and 
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Accented_Characters to be
interesting reading. There are a number of ways of doing this, and you
may want to consider different approaches.

Hope this helps,

James.

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