Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>
> > and search for "Insert an international character by
> > using a shortcut key." You might be pleasantly surprised.
>
> And if one routinely uses 15 or 20 of them?

One might keep a list of the commonly used ones available in a short
file for cut and paste as needed...even whole words or phrases could be
prepped that way. The benefit would depend on how frequently they are
used and the relative difficulty of typing them, so YMMV.

Another option I have used in similar situations is to assign a set of
"gibberish" characters to a word and type those, and then use the global
search and replace functionality to "repair" the text. This works better
for strings of more then one character, and even words. Not an ideal
solution, but it does allow you to stay in the ASCII (or otherwise
easily typed characters) and still end up with a nice document at the
end. YMMV.

Best,

Barry