Thanks! It worked in Word. Now let me see whether it will hold when I try to paste it in here:

Te?ekkür ederim.

Nope. Didn't work. The s with the cedille under it turned into a ?. I guess that's a Fodors problem. Maybe it'll work in e-mail and on other forums.

hopscotch, the accent in Italian serves a different purpose than the ones used in French, which indicate a vowel's pronunciation. In Italian each vowel's pronunciation is invariable, so an accent is used only to indicate an irregular stress. To use the above example, in "unità" you'd expect the second last syllable (the "i") to be stressed, but it's actually the last, the "a", hence the accent.

Press alter key and the numbers
Alt 160 = á
Alt 130 = é
Alt 161 = í
Alt 162 = ó
Alt 163 = ú
Alt 164 = ñ , for your spanish letters
Alt 165 = Ñ

For any Mac folks out there, I just found out about the n with a tilde on Mac (but I'll bet you all knew this...) Just type ALT n and then n! ñ Simple, eh? So~~Mac-like. I haven't had a need for it until very recently, so I was playing a bit with the keyboard, et voilà! (Hmmm, is that accent mark in the right place?)

Amy, there are three Macs in our house, so you could say we're converted, if not addicted. You're right, accents are easy using the option (alt) key. I have this list as a "sticky" on my screen:

opt `, a = à
opt e, e = é
opt `, e = è
opt i, e = ê
opt u, e = ë
opt i, i = î
opt i, o = ô
opt c = ç
opt + shift 2 = €

Anselm

Very cool Anselm! We Mac owners are a small percentage of the population, but we have needs too! Thanks

wantagig, our iMac G5 arrived on Thursday. I have a driveway full of firewood to stack and I can't tear myself away from the new Mac.

Anselm

(drools all over the eMac keyboard)

As soon as I can stop this !@#$ travel addiction, I'm gettin' me a G5. Yummy.
(Ever notice that people don't tend to talk about the other kind that way?)

In order for your deathless prose to be rendered accurately by everyone's browser, regardless of what processor, operating system, or web client they use, you should use the HTML &quot;escape&quot; codes whenever you are writing something that will be displayed on a web page (such as this forum). For example, if you want a letter &quot;c&quot; with a cedilla under it, you should type &quot;&amp;ccedil;&quot; instead of that nifty keyboard shortcut that only shows up correctly on <i>some</i> of the computers people use. There are lists of these all over the web; a good one is at

http://www.natural-innovations.com/wa/doc-charset.html

Note that some symbols do not have a shorthand representation like &amp;ccedil;, but rather use a number - an example would be the &quot;micron&quot; symbol µ.

µ = &amp;#181;