"James" == James Simmons <nicestep@gmail.com> writes:
James> 2). This book really requires a way to enter UTF-8 James> characters. If I could just stick a circumflex above a's, James> u's, and i's (both lower and upper case) that would be 99% James> of what I need. Then use US international keyboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
There is an alternative layout that uses the physical US keyboard to type diacritics in some operating systems (including Windows). ... uses keys ', `, ", ^ and ~ as dead keys used to generate characters with diacritics by pressing the appropriate key, then the letter on the keyboard. The international keyboard is a software setting installed from the Windows control panel
The disadvantage is that to type ^ you need ^-space. Mac and linux also allow to define a compose key. You type compose-^-a to get a with circumflex. Carlo