Using Foreign Alphabet Letters in GMAIL (ALT+#)

[Jun]

I noticed I can't use foreign alphabet letters in GMAIL or Google Talk.
For example, if I need to write accents for a, e, i , o, u, I usually
press ALT + 160, 130, 161, 162, 163, respectively, and I get the vowel
with the accent.

But GMAIL does not allow this.
I'm sure cut/paste would work, but is there a way to allow the ALT+#
codes to work?

Thanks in advance.

[Fuzzy Logic]

No. Those codes are a kludge. Use charmap (Start/Run: charmap) and
paste into a rich text email.

Fuzzy

[simon.powell]

To be honest Fuzzy Logic, I would call having to call up charmap every
time I wanted to use an accent more of a kludge than using the
alt-codes. What if you had to run an application every time you wanted
to use the letter 'c' in a particualr program, whereas every other
program let you just use the 'c' key?

[Fuzzy Logic]

Just call me Fuzzy. All my friends do.

I see no reasonable comparison between wanting to use diacritical
marks and wanting to use the letter 'c'. A kluge (sorry I misspelled
it before) is something that works, but sometimes unreliably and
usually for the wrong reason.

And it is a kluge. It was implemented hastily and poorly and in a
NON-PORTABLE way. Using a better set of keyboard shortcuts to add
diacritical marks would be a much better way to do it. I'm not saying
that charmap is easier, only that it is more portable (it is in all
version of Windows).

Fuzzy