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The on-screen keyboard (OSK) for foreign language character input on MS-Windows
A little known, but useful tool for non-western languages which can not be represented by the us-international keyboard layout, when no hardware keyboard is available:
The Windows on screen keyboard reflects the soft keyboard installed via Control panel / Regional and language options / Text input languages. and selected via the language toolbar, like so:
Easiest access, click Start, click Run, type “osk”, click “OK”. Or try this on XP: 
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I could have spanish characters in xp but not yet in 2010 using the on screen keyboard help.
P.s I an using a laptop there fore i do not have a seperate numeric for using code like alt 160 etc
In any recent version of Windows, including 7 (if that is what replaced your XP), you have to make change some changes under Control Panel / Region and Language (or you can click “Start”, “Run”, type “intl.cpl”and click “OK”).
There you can set the Us-International keyboard as default which gives you easy access to Spanish accents.
I made a Flash-file that sees you through the steps here: http://goo.gl/6R0nJ
Good luck.