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type="topic" style="task"
id="tips-specialchars">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="tips"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="keyboard-layouts"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.7.1" version="0.2" date="2012-11-16"
status="outdated"/>
<revision version="14.10" date="2014-09-14" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Shaun McCance</name>
<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Michael Hill</name>
<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Ubuntu Documentation Team</name>
</credit>
<desc>Type characters not found on your keyboard, including
foreign alphabets, mathematical symbols, and dingbats.</desc>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</info>
<title>Enter special characters</title>
<comment>
<cite date="2012-02-19">shaunm</cite>
<p>Marking complete for 3.0. We didn't get keyboard-inputmethods in.
If we get it for 3.0.1, uncomment the last section, write something,
and link.</p>
</comment>
<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>Dash</gui>.
For more information on the character map, see the
<link href="help:gucharmap">Character Map Manual</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, press
<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Shift</key><key>U</key></keyseq>, type the
four-character code point, and press <key>Enter</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="sources">
<title>Input sources</title>
<p>You can make your keyboard behave like the keyboard for another
language, regardless of the letters printed on the keys. You can even
switch between different input sources using an icon in the menu
bar. To learn how, see <link xref="keyboard-layouts"/>.</p>
</section>
</page>
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