Special Letters?! You have a keyboard with letters like that?!
Over here in the states it is agonizing typing something in a foreign language, desperately remembering which combination of vowel, apostrophe, shift, alt, spacebar, control, and in what order, in order for MS Word to put in a funky symbol. For spanish class I modified it so that the special letters all work by holding down control + alt+ letter + shift (for capitals).
My mos special letter on my keyboard is the ~