Entering extended characters?

As a recentish switcher I'm completely stumped by how I can enter extended characters. I need to enter the character code 0239 to get a special character in a font I'm using. On a PC I'd simply type 0239 on the numeric pad while holding down the Alt key. But that doesn't work on the Mac.
Any help much appreciated. GeoffT.

Most apps have an item in the "Edit" menu called "Special Characters..." which brings up a palette with just about every conceivable character set you could want. That should do the trick, unless the app is so old that it doesn't enable this system-level item. Assuming it works, once you've found the character you want, just click the "Insert" button in the lower-right of the palette to insert it into the active text field.
Here's Apple's description of the same feature:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8164.html
There are also many longstanding tricks to enter the more common special characters such as curly quotes, emdashes, and accented characters. Here's a very old but still valid cheat sheet:
http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/keyboard_shortcuts.html

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I anticipate that these days not that many applications are delivered that require use of the command line, but since I am still learning Java it is necessary to explore this avenue.
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