Tucson is Bilingual – Entering Spanish characters

Living in Tucson, Arizona, I’m used to seeing signs in Spanish. And I want to be sure that I enter Spanish words into the computer with proper accents. I still remember when I first moved to Tucson, the first story on the 10 o’clock news was that the new signs made for La Cañada read La Canada and many were unhappy. These characters can be entered by using the following method:

1. Hold down the left-hand ALT key;
2. On the numeric keypad, type the code corresponding to the character you want to type;
3. Let go of the ALT key.

And here is a table with some common Spanish codes:

Similar codes exist for accented and special characters in other languages as well as for symbols like © and ¼. Have fun exploring how you can say anything you want.

© 2012 by Sherry Goncharsky