I use this very easy method - check out <url=http://www.asciitable.com/>asciitable</url> for the ASCII codes and then press and hold ALT, use the number pad to type the 3 digit number that corresponds to the character you want and then release ALT.

Voila! or should that be Ṿila!
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Rory
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