special characters, ie spanish accents

[David Fleck]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, chip wrote:
> How do I get the special characters to work, which work in MS Windoze
> using the conbination of right-alt+4digit code? I need to be able to use
> certain accents and characters found in spanish writing. I am using
> FBSD-5.1 with XFCE window manager.

This may be of limited use to you, but the vim editor has this ability
built-in (if compiled that way).  To see what's available, start a vim
session and type ':help digraphs'.

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David Fleck
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