Internationalist Chris Rattan wonders how to create non-English characters. He writes: When you are typing in Spanish, how do you make an N with an enye (~) over it? The short answer is to hold ...

So between spending hours every week on all things French and continually answering questions from friends about the meaning of the two little dots over the “i” in my name, diacritics took on ...

The majority of keyboards sold in North America feature just two diacritics, the tilde (as used in a character like "ñ") and the grave accent (as in "è") but even these are hard to use in actual ...