*Everything* helps.
That is what the forum is about.  8^)

I installed [featherpad] from the Devuan repository and it seems to be working as needed.
I (think) I have everything correctly set to UTF-8 which will do.

I see it has more than what I need but it is lightweight and did not pull in anything strange.
Seems there are quite a few Qt libraries in my system.

My needs are circumscribed to the accented vowels I posted previously+the ES [ñ/Ñ].

The rest of the characters provided by the KB are a bonus.

· ½ ¬ { [ ] } \
¬ ¡  ⅛ £ $ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ™ ± ° æ ß ð đ ŋ ħ ĸ ł ~
Æ ẞ Ð ª Ŋ Ħ Ł { } \ « » ¢ „ “ ” µ • · | © ‚ ‘ ’ º × ÷

Just have to remember where they are.
So I don't have to cut/paste from the web when I need ©, ™, ± or fractions.  8^°

Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.

I'll have a look, thanks.

Too much for me.
It is a programmer's editor but I need *just* a text editor so as not to have to pull up LibreOffice Writer for such a simple task.

Interesting that there being *so* many Linux text editors, one would think that the hallowed 'choice' would have generated just *one* for simple everyday text edition for the common folk such as I.

Best,

A.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

No, it does not have the characters I need.

My kb has these characteristics:

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
# Set for IBM 82G3294 Model 'M'
#
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="latam"
XKBVARIANT="deadtilde"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

BACKSPACE="guess"

With those settings I can type all the characters I need with locale=[en_GB.UTF+8] on my keyboard which has a Latin American Spanish QWERTY layout, using the [AltGr] key:

á é í ó ú - Á É Í Ó Ú
à è ì ò ù - À È Ì Ò Ù
â ê î ô û - Â Ê Î Ô Û
ä ë ï ö ü - Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü

There are a lot more which I do not use but are surely useful:

¬ ¡ ⅛ £ $ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ™ ± ˛
| @ · ~ ½ { [ ] } \ ¸ and others ...

The thing is that I can type the accented characters in and they will render properly but when I try to save the file, I get the popup with the complaint.

I am resorting to [l3afpad] because [X File Writer], part of [XFE], a really nice and compact desktop agnostic file manager, has some issue I cannot solve and typing the characters usong [AltGR] is not working.

It would seem that there is some sort of conflict (sez AI):

and

As a result, every application works with [AltGR] with the exception of [XFW].

[L3afpad] does not seem to have had any updates in over 10 years.

Any ideas?

Best,

A.

https://imgur.com/a/vszdXo5

Anyone here use [l3afpad]?
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/pack … .18.1.11-4

Accented characters get me this pop-up:

There seems to be no options to fix this (?).

Best,

A.