[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 06:42 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I need to generate a few documents in Spanish and am trying to figure 
> out how to generate the accented characters and the eñe character 
> without cutting and pasting.

You can use the us-intl keyboard layout.  It lets you type just about
every accent from most languages that use the roman alphabet.

I use us-intl as my normal layout, because once you get used to it, you
can type English words more properly, too, and I have always been
annoyed at ASCIIizations of things to make them more convenient.
Résumé, as an example.  :-)

Anyway, the international layout makes the ', ", `, ~, and ^ keys
"dead".  You can then press them, followed by a (supported) letter, and
you get the proper combination.  For example:
  '+e = é
  ^+e = ê
  ~+n = ñ

You also get another "layer" of keys.  Right-Alt will get them to you,
for example:
  <RightAlt>+, = ç
  <RightAlt>+; = ¶
  <RightAlt>+: = °

	Hope this helps.
	Mike

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