Thank you all.
This is the feedback of your recommendations:

\enableregime[utf]
didn't work.

typing just ñ
worked fine.

\defineaccent ~ n {\ntilde}
worked using \~n and

This last solution is the one I was looking for because my keyboard has no ñ

thanks

Ciro


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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:16, Ciro Soto wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I finally got around the intallation of context minimals. Thank you for
>>> those who helped. I ran my old tex files (in spanish) and found that \~n
>>> is
>>> not working now.
>>> It should create an n with a tilde on top, but what happens is that there
>>> is
>>> no
>>> letter printed at all.
>>>
>>
>> I guess that you are asking about MKIV since it seems to work OK in MKII.
>>
>>  What is the fix for this?  Any switch?
>>> (I know I could use \char but I am looking for a more elegant solution)
>>>
>>
>> The most elegant solution is to use just ñ and it should work out of
>> the box there.
>> But still I would ask Hans to add the following line to enco-ini.mkiv:
>>
>>    \defineaccent ~ N {\Ntilde}        \defineaccent ~ n {\ntilde}
>>
>> You can try to modify the file yourself, then run "context --make" and
>> it should start working.
>>
>> (I always thought that these lines were "auto-generated" from Unicode
>> data on the fly.)
>>
>
> not this one; the ntild probably got lost at some point during cleaning up
>
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