On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 12:16 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote: > What could be simpler than: diacritical mark plus letter or > diacritical mark twice? Better keyboards! Since you asked. ;-) It is a right pain having to go through all these steps for the common ' " characters needed to be used a LOT in ordinary computing. What I want, and haven't had any luck finding, are easy ways to type the proper punctuation characters. Proper English open and closing quotes, em and en dashes, etc. It gets to be a right pain, when authoring HTML, to have to wade through a keyboard map or type in &emdash; and “ all over the place. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.