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Spanish keyboard layout some characters used in terminal don't appear

Asked by RayArdia

Terminal commands include special characters, eg. the Dollar sign and the "tilde" (squiggly dash) which is on my keyboard ñ but not available separately. Is there a way to get and insert these characters?
Many thanks in advance.
Ray

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

yup

Right alt method

http://spanish.about.com/od/writtenspanish/a/dia_ubuntu.htm

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RayArdia (theallinsons) said : 		#2

Thanks for reply, but my problem isn't typing Spanish characters - I can do that fine as mine is a Spanish keyboard. The problem is when a command has to be put into Terminal which has characters which are not physically ON my Keyboard, for example I have a € character but no dollar sign.

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karl michael (karlzt) said : 		#3

use character map?

are you sure you have the right keyboard layout?

i have a spanish keyboard layout, i get the dollar sign while pressing the shift key

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RayArdia (theallinsons) said : 		#4

$$$$$$$ - I must be getting more senile by the minute! I have also found ~ and | on the character map.
Thank you very much for helping a rather dim septuagenarian!