Julie's correct you guys...
Just hold down the ALT key and on the numbpad kayes type 0149.
You can do this for ANY character in the unicode fontset. Study your charactermap to learn/memorize your favorites.
HINT: For anyone caring to know... this is how we html coders input these 'special characters' into a Webpage -- by using their unicode numbers. But we leaver off the 0 (zero). That ensures that people see the correct character even if they are in a different country. These numbers are universal, but keyboard layouts are not.
There are 2 specific TAGS in the header of every Webpage that tell the user's browser what characterset the page is using. And how to handle special characters should it find any contained in the page.
Just thought i'd share that bit'o'info.