french accents on fedora; via unicode !

Had to assist with some homework this week; the kids using the fedora gnome netbook...

they needed characters with accents: Ééek!

now at the school, they have windows machines, and use alt+{nnn} codes, and they tried that at first.  Panic!

after some searching of the web, I found the page for using unicode on gnome:

CTRL+SHIFT+u {hex code}

so for above two codes
c9 and e9

looking up the rest on wikipedia

we have success!