This has nothing to do with pot or whitney houston, so I'm posting
here rather than in 'General'. It's a newbie-kinda-question, anyway.

I need to type a nice, formal letter to a foreign consulate in
Spanish, and I've set character encoding to iso-8859-15, but jedit
fails to explain the obvious to a moron like me: How do I type
the non-English characters? What freakin' keys do I hit?

I've been Googling and man paging (xmodmap, etc) for hours and
still haven't the foggiest idea! I'm probably searching for the
wrong things...duh.

I'm running Slackware 13.37 if it makes any difference.

Many thanks for specific, by-the-numbers help.

Why not just copy and paste from google translate or similar translation web site ?

Else, I think you need a spanish keyboard layout in X
(Option "XkbLayout" "es"), but I don't know exact settings

Ref. post #2. Any latin keybord layout in X :
? A section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
Or keyboard layout in the KDE control center ?
... and your US keybord will type latin characters :

The ]} key can do ~ ^ ¨ ( For e.g.: España , Park Güel ).

The += key : ` ´

Etc. etc.

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Thanks Cedrik, but this is the first of several sure-to-be very lengthy
letters, so I'm not going to copy and paste a zillion characters. I want
to be able to simply type in Spanish.

Without bringing X down and back up everytime I want to switch between
languages, either.

knudfl: When I type those characters into jedit, I just get those
characters...nothing else. I don't run KDE or any desktop dealie,
just fvwm.

Addendum to o/p:

'mined' is the answer (has great documentation!), but requires
function keys and mine (for some reason probably even unknown
to HP/Compaq) don't work, so I'm back to fiddling with jedit.

Isn't there anyone out there who regularly types in something
besides English on a standard US-101-key keyboard? There HAS
to be! Please....?!?!?

Hi,

Have a look at this post here at LQ

Regards

What you need to do is to enable a Compose key. You can then get "á" by typing <Compose><'><a>, "ñ" with <Compose><~><n>, and even "¿" with <Compose><?><?>. A convenient key to use is the Windows menu key, but feel free to use anything that's spare.

Presumably you will have to set it up with xmodmap; I don't suppose fvwm will do it! Incidentally, why iso-8859-15 when everyone has been using UTF-8 for years?