Hi all. In Windoze, in almost any program, I can hold down the [Alt] key and type a three-digit code to produce characters that are outside the ASCII 128. For example, [Alt]-[1]-[3]-[0] is the "e-accent-aigu" character. I use it all the time to type french accented characters or characters from other European languages when attempting to respect people's (and places') proper names. This saves me the bother of loading (and learning...) various keyboard mappings that I don't normally need or want. It's also a great deal more convenient than mouse-based pick lists. Is there an equivalent keyboard-based function in Linux or in KDE (since I'm running most of my apps in KDE, now)? Thanks, /kevin -- ** DIR-ty DEEDS, and they're DONE dirt cheap. (Sing it, now...)