I love Stephen Colbert. Especially for stunts like this: he decides to interview anti-immigrant fanatic Lou Dobbs as his latino alter ego Esteban Colberto, props to onegoodmove.org for posting this. His Spanish is cringe-worthy but the performance as a whole, is great, the idea just genius. I love how totally uncomfortable Lou Dobbs looks at the beginning.
Bien hecho Esteban!
(Where the hell is the initial upside-down exclamation mark on this damned keyboard?)
The Guiri Dispatches 
January 21, 2008 at 6:30 pm
For ¡ on a Windows keyboard hold down alt + 173, for ¿ alt + 168 on numbers keypad.
Don’t know about a mac but found this:
http://kb.iu.edu/data/anhf.html
ASCII chart: http://www.asciitable.com/
To activate foreign keyboard in xp:
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/winkey.html
Will this help?
January 21, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Wow, that’s a lot of info. Sadly it doesn’t help 😦 I’ve got a Mac, physically, the keyboard looks American, but I switched it to Spanish inputs because I had gotten to used to them (though obviously I’ve not been writing correctly punctuated Spanish if I can’t find the initial exclamation point) You’d think it would be in a fairly obvious place on a Spanish keyboard. But you would be wrong. :p
January 21, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Ok, Macs use a different method. According to this http://www.4d.com/docs/CMU/CMU10120.HTM
use option-1 for ¡ and shift-option-? for ¿. This is all I could find… They go out of their way to make it a pain don’t they?
January 22, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Yeah, option-1 is for a normal Mac keyboard, mine’s the Spanish one. Weird. the ¿ is easy to find. Annoying. Oh well.
January 23, 2008 at 11:34 pm
I’ve read up on all I could find from converting ASCII/ANSI to Unicode and UTF-8 to changing code pages. Most seem to offer the same info I’ve supplied or way off in the tech ozone. Sorry it’s of no help. Other than trying the Roman/US code page or revert back to English inputs and use the option work-a-rounds I don’t know what else to tell you. It supports all Western European languages including Spanish(Traditional).
Changing the subject: You may be interested in this article. http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_blacks_and_immigration.html
It concerns US blacks and Latino immigrants not getting on so well these days.