Not being able to print the é in fiancée in the last post was bugging me, so I thought I'd figure out how to enter UTF-8 characters. The short answer is that the right Alt button on my keyboard is perhaps the AltGr key. To produce an é, I pressed AltGr i, which I found simply by trying all the various AltGr combinations.

I'd prefer this two stroke system, since it has less to remember, but AltGr ; produces », without waiting for another keystroke. I probably need to reconfigure my keyboard to get this to work.

There's a reconfiguring-for-X example here. What if you aren't in an X environment? Ah, Bruno Haible points out the kbd package with kbd_mode. man kbd_mode looks like a good source of info, but I'll put that on hold for now and get back to work :p. There is also a kbd fork, which I'll look into if the standard kbd configuration turns out to be too complicated. Ooh, Marjan Parsa has a nice mini-HOWTO. Alright, now back to work...