Accent marks, special characters, symbols, dingbats

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

If you have trouble getting accent marks or other nonalphanumeric characters (this is repeated/buried in another thread also but hoping will be easier to find in this separate thread).

On some touchscreen keyboards (notably iPads) holding a letter down will give you some other options, (for example! if I hold down the "e" key I can get ę ē ė etc.). I have put some common characters at end of this comment if you would rather just cut and paste.

The official site for characters with chart of likely to be needed ones if you do want to copy is at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names... (if more needed, try links listed under unicode character references at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names... )

W3.org is the official site and is accurate for almost all displays. Not necessarily easiest to read.

Useful links you may find easier to understand (or at the least copy from) are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_cha... , http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/A... ,

For non-windows keyboards and operating systems, this link might prove helpful: http://alt-codes.org/

Once you get into characters not in Ascii, Iso or unicode sets you can run into problems on some operating systems, displays or non-English languages.

Some common characters if you do not want to click links to cut/paste:
a ã å ā a à á â ä Æ Ã Å Ā À Á Â Ä ć ç č Ć Ç Č ę ē ė ë é è ê Ę Ē Ė Ë É È Ê į ì ī ï î í Į Ì Ī Ï Î Í ł Ł ń ñ Ń Ñ ō œ ø õ ó ö ô ò Ō Œ Ø Õ Ó Ö Ô Ò ś ß š Š Ś ū ú ü û ù Ū Ú Ü Û Ù ÿ Ÿ ź ž ż Ź Ž Ż … ¿ ¡ ‘ ’ ` °


✔ ✘ ♥ ♡ ★ ☆
½ ¼ ¾
™
¢ ₩ ¥ € ¢ £
©
®
← → ↑ ↓
Ø
em dash is —

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Deborah (Debbie Rice) wrote: "On some touchscreen keyboards (notably iPads, holding a letter down will give you some other options, (for example if I hold down the e I can get ę ē ė etc.)? .."

This is also true for any mac os x Lion or Mountain Lion (10.7/10.8) users.

[MissJessie]

Very useful Deborah.

I long ago made a Word page with all the commonly used marks and just cut and paste from there. Very easy actually.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Oops...editing my post to clear the question mark. I do not type well on touchscreens.

Thanks, Jennifer; I no longer have a Mac to play with.

[Audrey]

Thanks, this is helpful!

[Dinah]

As an author with an accent in my surname, I'm enormously grateful for the care librarians are taking with this, as not accenting a letter is changing the legal spelling of the name to another distinct name, as well as inadvertently introducing a new author page where not needed.
Many many thanks, Deborah!

Dinah Lee Küng

[Rick]

If you are on a Windows machine you should be able to go to Start > Program Files > Accessories > System Tools and find the Character Map program. You can visually scroll through all the accented and special characters, then copy to your clipboard.