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! ĄGraciŕs! (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. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Chris Mohler <<a href="mailto:cr33dog@gmail.com">cr33dog@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:34 PM, David McNally <<a href="mailto:david3333333@gmail.com">david3333333@gmail.com</a>> 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? </div>In Gnome I press the Compose key, then ! twice to get a Ą. To get ż, 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: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey</a> ĄHTH! Chris -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- David McNally <a href="mailto:david3333333@gmail.com">david3333333@gmail.com</a> Linux Kernel 2.6.28-15-generic