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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="topic" style="task"
id="tips-specialchars">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="tips"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-03-19" status="incomplete"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Shaun McCance</name>
<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
<years>2011</years>
</credit>
<desc>Type characters not found on your keyboard, including
foreign alphabets, mathematical symbols, and dingbats.</desc>
</info>
<title>Enter special characters</title>
<p>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.</p>
<links type="section">
<title>Methods to enter characters</title>
</links>
<section id="charmap">
<title>Character map</title>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You can find <app>Character Map</app> in the <gui>Activities</gui> overview.
For more information on the character map, see the
<link href="ghelp:gucharmap">Character Map Manual</link>.</p>
</section>
<section id="compose">
<title>Compose key</title>
<p>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 <em>é</em>, you can press <key>compose</key> then <key>'</key>
then <key>e</key>.</p>
<p>Keyboards don't have specific compose keys. Instead, you can define
one of the existing keys on your keyboard as a compose key.</p>
<steps>
<title>Define a compose key</title>
<item><p>Click your name in the top bar and select <gui>System
Settings</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>Click <gui>Region and Language</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>Select the <gui>Layouts</gui> tab and press
<gui>Options</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>Find the group called <gui>Compose key position</gui>.
Select the key or keys you would like to behave as a compose key.
You can choose keys like <key>Caps Lock</key>, either of the
<key>Alt</key> keys, or the menu key. Any keys you select will
then only work as a compose key, and will no longer work for
their original purpose.</p></item>
</steps>
<p>You can type many common characters using the compose key, for
example:</p>
<list>
<item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>'</key> then a letter to
place an acute accent over that letter, such as <em>é</em>.</p></item>
<item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>`</key> (backtick) then a
letter to place a grave accent over that letter, such as
<em>è</em>.</p></item>
<item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>"</key> then a letter to
place an umlaut over that letter, such as <em>ë</em>.</p></item>
<item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>-</key> then a letter to
place a macron over that letter, such as <em>ē</em>.</p></item>
</list>
<p>For more compose key sequence, see <link
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Common_compose_combinations">the
compose key page on Wikipedia</link>.</p>
</section>
<section id="ctrlshiftu">
<title>Code points</title>
<p>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 <gui>Character
Details</gui> tab. The code point is the four characters after <gui>U+</gui>.</p>
<p>To enter a character by its code point, hold down <key>Ctrl</key> and
<key>Shift</key>, type <key>u</key> followed by the four-character code
point, then release <key>Ctrl</key> and <key>Shift</key>. If you often use
characters that you can't easily access with other methods, you might find
it useful to memorize the code point for those characters so you can enter
them quickly.</p>
</section>
<section id="layout">
<title>Keyboard layouts</title>
<p>XXXXX: write keyboard layouts page, link</p>
</section>
<section id="im">
<title>Input methods</title>
<p>XXXXX: write input methods page, link</p>
</section>
</page>
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