How do I make accent marks?

Question

I have read other posts on how to make accent marks on a Windows computer, but I use Ubuntu.

Is there some special code that I can use to make these accent marks?

Answer 1

Check this thread to see if it will help. The first user has a solution for Windows computers.

http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/6330/how-to-type-symbols

Answer 2

Alt 0193 Á

Alt 160 á

Alt 0201 É or Alt 144 É

Alt 130 é

Alt 0205 Í

Alt 161 í

Alt 0211 Ó

Alt 162 ó

Alt 148 ö

Alt 0218 Ú

Alt 163 ú

Alt 129 ü

Alt 164 ñ

Alt 0209 Ñ

Alt 168 ¿

Alt 173 ¡

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Mac Users

To get accents on the Mac....

*hold down the Option key, and while holding it down, type the letter e; then release those keys and type the letter that you want the accent to appear on, for example....

á = Opt + e, then a

é = Opt + e, then e

í = Opt + e, then i

ó = Opt + e, then o

ú = Opt + e, then u

ñ = Opt + n, then n

ü= Opt + u, then u

The inverted punctuation marks are achieved as follows:

¡ = Opt + 1

¿ = Opt + shift + ?

Credit for this goes to cecilia97

Unfortunately, these dont work on Ubuntu. - espanol5555, Nov 27, 2010

Answer 3

The Vikingo Windows solution for handling special characters will not likely work under Ubuntu. I have researched your question at the Ubuntu site and found this page containing user questions similar to yours. Ubuntu is an international operating system and likely contains it's own method of handling specialized characters. You may need to buy and international keyboard.

Check it out. Hope this helps!

https://help.ubuntu.com/search.html?cof=FORID:9&cx=004599128559784038176:vj_p0xo-nng&ie=UTF-8&q=special+characters+spanish

Answer 4

Unfortunately, I wouldn't know the answer to this, but would Vikingo (see Moe's answer on that thread) work with Ubuntu?
It's excellent with Windows.