spanish characters: inverted ? and !

[Glenn R Williams]

To get the apostrophe key behavior, you can select the US alt-intl keyboard. 
Does that part work on your desktop?

If so, right click on the keyboard icon and click on configure. Go to the 
advanced tab and scroll down to the "Compose Key" section. Check the one you 
want to use for the Compose key. for example,  "Left Windows key".

When you press the combination of the compose key-shift-1 (the exclamation 
point), you should get the upside down exclamation point. On my machine, I 
have to hold down Left Window Key and Shift, and click twice on the 
exclamation point. To get the question mark, do the same thing and double 
click the question mark.

 ¡Just like this! ¿The is a question?

BTW, the compose key is independent of the international keyboard (so you can 
use it with the regular US keyboard to get the exclamation point.)

HTH,

Glenn

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 21:21:01 Jesus Arocho wrote:
> Any one know how to set this up consistently?  On my wife's laptop the
> keyboard layout was default US and she could type an accented character by
> simply pressing the apostrophe key and then a letter, although
> cntrl+apostrophe and the letter would also work.  I played around to find
> the inverted ? by changing to alt intl and intl.  I finally went back to
> the default and after further playing I found that: right alt (pressed and
> released) followed by holding the left shift and pressing ? twice worked;
> it also worked for !.  Tried the same on my desktop and it does not work.

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Glenn R Williams
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