(And I only had to learn about 10 codes and that was Spanish covered!) But in Apple it seems incredibly more cumbersome. When I was typing in Spanish on my PC and wanted to use á or ñ, for example, all I had to do was hold down the Alt key and type either 0225 or 0241 and immediately those characters dropped into place in whatever application I was using.
Already I am missing many of the features you can get on Windows, one of which seems to be the use of ASCII codes. Before switching to Apple Mac, I was a PC/Windows user virtually since its inception.