Upside-down exclamation mark in Ubuntu

[David McNally]

Hey Chris (and everyone else who reads this)!

I found the compose key settings. It seems as though the default is to have
no compose key assigned. I set mine up as right-alt, and it seems to work
perfectly!

¡Graciàs! (actually, I'm not sure if the 'a' should be accented, but at
least I can accent it now!


PS
I just got your next message after writing all of that. Yes, it does look
like eight upside-down question marks.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:34 PM, David McNally <david3333333 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > It's that time of year again... fall is here, and for me, that means...
> > longer homework!
> >
> > I need to word-process a handwritten essay for my Spanish class. I now
> need
> > to find the unusual symbols that exist in Spanish and not on my USA
> > keyboard, including accent marks and upside-down exclamation and question
> > marks. I was able to find the accent-marked letters in the Character Map
> > application in Applications -> Accessories (which makes sense, because
> the
> > icon for Character Map is an accent-marked lowercase 'a').
> >
> > Does anyone know where the upside-down question and exclamation marks
> are?
>
> In Gnome I press the Compose key, then ! twice to get a ¡.  To get ¿,
> I press Compose then ? twice.  Accents are similar - Compose, a, then
> ' produces an á.
>
> My Compose key is right-alt.  I forget what the default is - Check in
> System->Preferences->Keyboard.  Then on the Layout tab, click 'Layout
> Options'.  That is where the Compose key settings live.
>
> Check here for more info:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey
>
> ¡HTH!
> Chris
>
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David McNally
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