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Tips on Entering Non-English Characters on the Computer

For PC computers: To write accent marks and other foreign language characters, just press the "Alt" key on your computer, and at the same time press the following 3 or 4 numbers, as applicable

Letter     Alt+  
á     160
à     133
å     134
â     131
ä     132
ã     0227
à    0195
ª     166
Ç     128
ç     135
é     130
è     138
ê     136
í     161
ì     140
ï     139
Ñ     165
ñ     164

Letter     Alt+  
ó     162
ò     149
ô     147
ö     148
õ     0245
Õ     0213
º     167
ú     163
ù     151
û     150
ü     129
¡     173
¿     168
£     156
€ (Euro symbol)     0128
«     174
»     175

More ALT+Number Combinations: http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm

 

For more about this, for both MACs and PCs, see http://www.colby.edu/lrc/help/accents.html and http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html

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