I've seen a lot here at Free Republic, but I think this is the first time I've seen an argument over a tilde!
"I have to admit, I had to go look at the source code in order to figure out how to put the tilde above the 'n'.
I've seen a lot here at Free Republic, but I think this is the first time I've seen an argument over a tilde!"
There are several ways to put international characters in a post. For myself, I use the International Keyboard setting in Windows, and can do those things really easily. There's also the Character Map program that lets you copy characters to the clipboard. Another way that some folks use is to use a program like Word and use the Insert/Symbol menu command, then cut and paste into the post.
The point here was that the gentleman was castigating another poster for his poor Spanish (although the only thing wrong was the wrong tense for one verb), then used the incorrect spelling for the curseword he called the gentleman. He used a plain n instead of ñ in the word, making it mean something completely different than he intended.
If you're going to criticize someone's use of a foreign language, I'd say you should probably post your own use of it correctly. But, oh well.
Oh yeah, I forgot one more way. With the NumLock light on, you can hold down Alt and type 0241 on the number pad key to get ñ, as long as you're using Windows.