Tiping in á, é, í, ó, ú letters

Not really happy about this issue as I have to write
some spanish e-mails all the time.

I'm sure that the final, non-beta version of the browser will provide a means to input accented characters from the keyboard.

Good question. I had hoped you would not ask it, as I did not intend to check it until tomorrow on my work PC.

But I got curious and installed Safari on my tiny Japanese Windows machine. iTunes handles it, Safari does not.

If I may go on guessing, Apple had no use for any own text rendering in iTunes, as it just is a bunch of text fields. However, with Safari, they have to support fonts and sizes, and they decided to do it the "right" way, i.e. the Apple way.

If I may go on guessing, Apple had no use for any own
text rendering in iTunes, as it just is a bunch of
text fields. However, with Safari, they have to
support fonts and sizes, and they decided to do it
the "right" way, i.e. the Apple way.

So it does work on Windows using the Apple deadkey shortcuts? So the OP can write his emails just by switching to those? Then I think you are right, they are not likely to add the old Windows methods.

Ehm..., no... Not the Apple deadkeys.

Alt+e-e does not give é in Safari on my Japanese Windows machine. It activates menus in good standard Windows fashion.

The way to type é in Safari in Windows (Japanese or English) is to use a language keyboard layout that contains it. Most of those ones use deadkeys for accents, but they do not use alt to activate it.

Nope.
Remember I'm using a PC and not a Mac.
It doesn't work either.

Using the US International layout, can you get á by typing Right Alt + a?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560

You are right that the US International Keyboard for Windows is annoying. It makes it easy to type some accented characters but typing a standard English text is more cumbersome, as ' and " do not display unless you press the key twice.

Using alt+... is not perfect either, as there always are some characters I forget the code for.

In Windows I usually switch keyboard layouts per language, and try to memorize where the keys are in each layout. In Safari for Windows, that seems to be the only solution.

The by far most efficient keyboard layout in my opinion is US Extended for MacOS X, but unfortunately that does not help you very much.

a bunch of keys actually display
something different from what is printed on them,

So you are saying that it does work then? Which keys are different than what is printed? Are you using a UK keyboard?

I have the same problem! Everything after the accented character goes away! i can type it in initially, and can do it on Internet explorer fine, but on safari i cant type in accented characters. and i am using the right keyboard layout because i can type the characters in anywhere else fine, just not safari. PS. safari public beta thing. windows vista.

Tested on Windows with French keyboard layout: é

Ok, there is a real problem. The previous post was posted from Safari, and it looked like this:

Tested on Windows with French keyboard layout: é è ç à...
With Spanish keyboard layout: á é í ó ú ñ...
(Use Programs > Accessories > Accessibility > On-Screen Keyboard to see which keys to use, if you do not now them. The On-Screen Keyboard may be in a different location, but it is the app to use.)
The text above was all written with English Windows XP and Safari 3 without any problems.
However, I admit that there are strange things going on. At least once when I tried to type an accented character yesterday, Safari crashed as soon as I pressed the following key.

But as you see most of the text was truncated. When I try to copy it from Safari, it also truncates the text. This is now posted with Firefox.

Fujitsu Siemens Windows XP