Spanish Characters in Abiword

[Michael A. Peters]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:37, Preston wrote:
> El Jueves, 26 de Agosto de 2004 03:35 PM, Michael A. Peters escribió:
> > I'm trying to do some stuff in Spanish (taking a Spanish class)
> >
> > I found this page that describes how to get the special characters:
> >
> > http://www.samiam.org/typing.spanish.characters.html
> >
> > It doesn't want to work - at least not in AbiWord.
> > I can cut and paste from html using the html (IE ¿ but that's a
> > PITA.
> >
> > Help me. Please.
> Is your keyboard correctly configured for spanish? I wrote a whole book in 
> abiword, in spanish of course, using an USA keyboard.

I haven't got a clue.
What do I need to do in order to set it up for spanish? Is there a
foreign support package I need to install or something? Text file
somewhere? Control panel? Google is not helping me :(

Maybe I'm searching incorrectly.