This might sound a bit stupid but have you read through the how-to's?
The should be a load installed on your system under /usr/doc/how-to/,
and im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. Sorry,
i cant remember the name of the document.

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>From:  Judith Miner[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent:  06 July 2001 15:40
>To:    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject:       Re: [newbie] Font Questions
>
>Civileme wrote:
>>> Well, you need an international keyboard.  Go to Mandrake Control
>Center-->Hàrdwárë-->Keyboard
>
>Sélèct "U S International"
>
>Close Mandrake Contröl Center.
>
>Now you will find some keys appear to be dead.  ` ' " for example.  They
>must be typed twice.  If you type them once, then they combine with the
>ñéxt çharacter you type. <<
>
>Thank you for answering. But--
>
>That's it???? That's all Linux offers me? What about characters that
>aren't on the keyboard at all, such as a cedille? What about true
>apostrophes, true quotation marks, bullets, em dashes, en dashes,
>fractions? These are such basic necessities that I don't understand how
>a modern operating system could leave them unavailable to users.
> --Judy Miner
>
>
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