Special Characters

[R_Head]

I am trying to use Special Characters with an US English Keyboard.
For Example for Æ is Alt+0198 , ñ is Alt+164 and Ñ is Alt+165

I am using KDE on Mandriva 2010.2

There is some that is not turned on? Used to work in the past.

Post that on the Mandriva forum and seems to be ignored.

[rolf]

some characters here

In 2011 kde, I looked in Systemsettings > Input Devices > Keyboard > Advanced
I'm not at all familiar with these functionalities, played around with check marks, nothing interesting.
I pressed the Defaults > Apply buttons, then tried the left Windows key instead of Alt with your combo, got the above.
Edit: the forum borks when I leave the characters in, which was Vietnamese for the first combo, 164 for the second, Vietnamese for the third.
We have Vietnamese installed for the second keyboard/locale/whatever it is, I'm not very practiced at this, and those look like Vietnamese.
fwiw

[rolf]

[dedanna1029]

I use Gnome character map, and find it to be quite good. You may be able to help yourself by installing the fonts themselves that are supported (there are many; but if you don't have them installed, they won't show up in any special character combinations).

[R_Head]

Did not thought about that K

[dedanna1029]