> If you're running Windows 2000 or XP (at least; other versions may work
> too), you should have a unicode character map. Using it, you can insert
> any unicode character. I *think* (but cannot confirm) that the Word
> Insert Symbol command should do it too (if you have a big enough font...
> it has/had this habit of only letting you use the current font or
> 'symbol' fonts rather than any random font. Intelligent MS...). Then,
> just insert the base character (either from the keyboard or the charmap)
> followed by the diacritic you want from the combining diacritics range.
> (There are more combining diacritics floating around in e.g. the Greek
> range. If you want to find them all, I suggest you look at the character
> code PDFs on the Unicode website <
http://www.unicode.org> and find any
> with a faded o.)
>
> That method should work for any Unicode-compliant application (using the
> built-in charmap), including Notepad 2000/XP.