How do I type the Spanish inverted question mark in Emacs?

Question

I want to write in Spanish without having to keep Charmap open! How do I type the Spanish inverted question and exclamation marks?

¡Quiero escribir en Castellano sin usar el charmap! ¿Cómo escribo los signos de interrogación y exclamación?

• How do I type these characters in Emacs?
• How do I type them in any general input box in Windows?

Solution

Answering our own questions is encouraged, so here we go:

In any Windows editor or text box

Source: here

Hold Alt and type a number corresponding to the char code.

To use the decimal Unicode value, prefix the number with a zero, example: Alt 0191

To use the decimal windows code page value, prefix the number with a zero, example: Alt 161

According to source, you can also type the Unicode hex value, but that needs an entry in registry and did not work for me.

• Inverted question mark (¿):

• Alt 0191

• Alt 168

• Alt +00A1

• Inverted exclamation mark (­¡):

• Alt 0161

• Alt 173

• Alt +00BF

In Emacs

Source: xahlee's Emacs page.

1. Inverted question mark (¿):

• C-x 8 ?

2. Inverted exclamation mark (­¡):

• C-x 8 !

You can also use function ucs-insert (M-x ucs-insert or C-x 8 RET) and Emacs will request a hex value to insert the character.

Or set the input method (M-x set-input-method) to ucs and type normally. To insert a Unicode char, type u.

Comments

[Leonel]

What about the exclamation marks ?

[David Knapp]

Alt 173 (Follow link. Enter 'INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK' in searchbox.)

[DMA57361]

Looks comprehensive to me, have +1. Mine was a bit brief as I was on the way out of the office and thought it would be better than nothing, hope it helped!

[Leonel]

It did! Thanks for your time and for linking to the website. Many thanks !