Special Characters on the keyboard

Is there a way to assign special characters to particular key sequence? When one needs to write in different languages switching keyboards becomes impractical. There must be a way to assign, say: ą, to a combination of keys such that US keyboard can still be used.

When one needs to write in different languages switching keyboards becomes impractical. There must be a way to assign, say: ą, to a combination of keys such that US keyboard can still be used.
1) Lots of such characters can be made with the US Extended layout. Here is a list
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/diacritics.html
2) You can make your own layout with any characters you want with Ukelele
http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele

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It's a problem that could be encountered in different circumstances, in this circumstance it is with a program I am writing in java.
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.
It's interesting actually since presumably developers writing code for the international market need to accomodate characters similar to those I am attempting to enter, and more that are less familiar to me such as far and middle eastern scripts, and of course many others.
We (possibly) assume that since a character is printed on our keyboard it is a simple matter to read it in. But what if I was a Spanish student wanting to type a character into the command line and that character wasn't there? I believe that Spanish (and variants of that language) is the third most spoken language on the planet.
These characters are often relatively easy to enter in office and internet applications amongst others but apparetly not so at the command line.
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