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I'm thinking I should start introducing/referring to jwg as my fiance (and conversely, of course).

[Note: I really wanted to spell that with the accent, but PC-ignoramus that I am I can't figure/find out how to produce diacriticals. Any advice (for future reference) would be greatly appreciated.]

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[bratman.livejournal.com]

the character map is your friend.
the keystrokes are alt+0233

or you could just grab it and load it into your buffer and than "ctrl v" it in when you need it.

Annoying yés, but once it's in your buffér you can usé it to your héart's contént.

héh

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Well, one problem is that it's not just "it". In this particular case I wanted e-acute, but some other time I might want a-grave, or o-dieresis (what most people call "umlaut"), and I certainly don't want to have to learn, let alone type, the codes for all of the damn things. One would think there would be shortcuts.

Then again, this being MS, maybe not.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Ahà!

The magic words turned out to be "character map". With a little assistance from my fiancé, I was able to figure out what this meant. The interface is a little clunky for typing text, but it doesn't come up that often.

Thanks.