I've got a Toshiba Laptop and Vista OS. Laptops usually have an American-style keyboard, and Spanish (as well as other languages) requires some special keys that aren't on American keyboards. I cannot make special characters using my keyboard. I check some forums over the internet and they suggest to use the Fn keyboard in combination with ALT, but this trick does not work for me.To get the characters I am using the CHARACTER MAP. Does anyone knows a way to insert this characters using the keyboard?
I will appreciate your help.

Thank you Pipo,
The combination of Fn + F11 make my keyboard lock to the numbers, but I cannot still generate special characters such as the "ň".

Pipo,I am using notepad.

it works with numlock on or off
Are you holding down the fn & Alt keys when you tap in 164?

how'd you make it work? maybe you can share what you did (just in case i might encounter a similar prob with my laptop :D )