You can enter and view thousands of characters from most of the world's writing systems, even those not found on your keyboard. This page lists some different ways you can enter special characters.
GNOME comes with a character map application that allows you to browse all the characters in Unicode. Use the character map to find the character you want, and then copy and paste it to wherever you need it.
You can find
A compose key is a special key that allows you to press multiple keys
in a row to get a special character. For example, to type the accented
letter é, you can press
Keyboards don't have specific compose keys. Instead, you can define one of the existing keys on your keyboard as a compose key.
Click your name in the top bar and select
Click
Select the
Find the group called
You can type many common characters using the compose key, for example:
Press
Press
Press
Press
For more compose key sequence, see the compose key page on Wikipedia.
You can enter any Unicode character using only your keyboard with the numeric
code point of the character. Every character is identified by a four-character
code point. To find the code point for a character, find the character in the
character map application and look in the status bar or the
To enter a character by its code point, hold down
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