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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" style="task" id="tips-specialchars" xml:lang="sv">
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<link type="guide" xref="tips"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="keyboard-layouts"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.2" date="2011-09-25" status="candidate"/>
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<name>Shaun McCance</name>
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<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
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<desc>Type characters not found on your keyboard, including
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foreign alphabets, mathematical symbols, and dingbats.</desc>
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<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
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<title>Enter special characters</title>
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<cite date="2011-04-04">shaunm</cite>
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<p>Marking complete for 3.0. We didn't get keyboard-inputmethods in.
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If we get it for 3.0.1, uncomment the last section, write something,
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<p>You can enter and view thousands of characters from most of the world's
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writing systems, even those not found on your keyboard. This page lists
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some different ways you can enter special characters.</p>
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<links type="section">
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<title>Methods to enter characters</title>
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<section id="charmap">
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<title>Character map</title>
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<p>GNOME comes with a character map application that allows you to browse
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all the characters in Unicode. Use the character map to find the character
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you want, and then copy and paste it to wherever you need it.</p>
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<p>You can find <app>Character Map</app> in the <gui>Activities</gui> overview.
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For more information on the character map, see the
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<link href="ghelp:gucharmap">Character Map Manual</link>.</p>
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<section id="compose">
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<title>Compose-tangent</title>
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<p>A compose key is a special key that allows you to press multiple keys
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in a row to get a special character. For example, to type the accented
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letter <em>é</em>, you can press <key>compose</key> then <key>'</key>
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then <key>e</key>.</p>
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<p>Keyboards don't have specific compose keys. Instead, you can define
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one of the existing keys on your keyboard as a compose key.</p>
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<title>Define a compose key</title>
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<item><p>Click your name in the top bar and select <gui>System
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Settings</gui>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Klicka på <gui>Region och språk</gui>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Select the <gui>Layouts</gui> tab and click
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<gui>Options</gui>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Find the group called <gui>Compose key position</gui>.
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Select the key or keys you would like to behave as a compose key.
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You can choose keys like <key>Caps Lock</key>, either of the
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<key>Alt</key> keys, or the menu key. Any keys you select will
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then only work as a compose key, and will no longer work for
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their original purpose.</p></item>
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<p>You can type many common characters using the compose key, for
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<item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>'</key> then a letter to
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place an acute accent over that letter, such as <em>é</em>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>`</key> (back tick) then a
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letter to place a grave accent over that letter, such as
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<em>è</em>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>"</key> then a letter to
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place an umlaut over that letter, such as <em>ë</em>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>-</key> then a letter to
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place a macron over that letter, such as <em>ē</em>.</p></item>
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<p>For more compose key sequences, see <link href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Common_compose_combinations">the
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compose key page on Wikipedia</link>.</p>
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<section id="ctrlshiftu">
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<title>Code points</title>
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<p>You can enter any Unicode character using only your keyboard with the numeric
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code point of the character. Every character is identified by a four-character
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code point. To find the code point for a character, find the character in the
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character map application and look in the status bar or the <gui>Character
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Details</gui> tab. The code point is the four characters after <gui>U+</gui>.</p>
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<p>To enter a character by its code point, hold down <key>Ctrl</key> and
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<key>Shift</key>, type <key>u</key> followed by the four-character code
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point, then release <key>Ctrl</key> and <key>Shift</key>. If you often use
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characters that you can't easily access with other methods, you might find
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it useful to memorize the code point for those characters so you can enter
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<section id="layout">
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<title>Tangentbordslayouter</title>
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<p>You can make your keyboard behave like the keyboard for another language,
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regardless of the letters printed on the keys. You can even easily switch
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between different keyboard layouts using an icon in the top bar. To learn
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how, see <link xref="keyboard-layouts"/>.</p>
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<title>Input methods</title>
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<p>XXXXX: write input methods page, link</p>