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2.1 Egyptian hieroglyphs
2.2 Afrikaans
2.3 Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian
2.4 Chinese - Pinyin
2.5 Danish / Norwegian
2.6 Esperanto
2.7 Estonian
2.8 Faroese
2.9 Finnish / Swedish
2:10 Greek
2:11 Hawaiian
2:12 Hebrew
2:13 Icelandic
2:14 Latvian
2:15 Lithuanian
2:16 Luxembourgish
2:17 Dutch
2:18 Polish
2:19 Romanian
2:20 Slovak
2:21 Slovenian
2:22 Spanish
2:23 Czech
2:24 Turkic
2:25 Hungarian

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General special characters

Punctuation mark

Notes:

Accents

Mathematical signs

Mathematical formulas should be found with the TeX -like typesetting application, its handling is Help: TeX described. For short mathematical formulas in continuous flow texts are those who do not want to deal with the TeX typesetting similar to the following special characters are available. In general, to note that variables should be italicized - x ∈ A. derivatives should not be with the acute accent written (on German keyboards, top right), but on one of the following ways:

Powers can be created with the ^{tag, for example results in '' a'' ^{4 a4.}}

Unicode contains characters for high - and subscript numbers, and symbols.

However, as these many readers cause display problems (missing code assignment in this font ), these should be used only in exceptional cases and not in articles.
In addition, the small characters can be poorly recognized and distinguished from many readers. The use should therefore remain on obvious areas and volumes as m² and m³ limited, where the meaning is familiar and it is already apparent from the context.
Only the superscript numbers 1, 2 and 3 ( ¹ ² ³) are taken from the long-standing common ANSI code and are therefore to be expected in any font. Therefore, the following characters are only informative here. For high and low position, the tags are ^_usable.

Special characters from foreign languages

Egyptian hieroglyphs

See hieroglyphs.

Afrikaans

ŉ should not be used ( instead ' s).

Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian

Not to be confused with the Icelandic Eth

Chinese - Pinyin

As a syllable separator an apostrophe (' ) is used.

Theoretically can Pinyin following special characters for spelling variants to which are hardly used in practice:

Danish / Norwegian

Esperanto

Estonian

Note: Š š Ž and, ž only in words coming from other languages.

Faroese

Note: The ø, Ø can also be written with ö, Ö, but this is rare and often only in solemn / ancient context.

Finnish / Swedish

Greek

A complete table of all polytonic characters can be found in the article Polytonische orthography.

Hawaiian

( in the third column are potential vocalizations inserted )

Latvian

Lithuanian

Luxembourgish

Dutch

Note: Occasionally Ÿ or Y is written instead of Ĳ, or ÿ or y instead ĳ as a ĳ looks in many script fonts such as ÿ. The two Y- variants exist in the Dutch language actually not, except in foreign words. In the absence of the two ligatures Ĳ and ĳ IJ and ij can replace (but not Ij! ), Which occurs mainly in the Flemish-speaking region of Belgium.

Polish

Note: It happens, the version used in place of the last four characters with commas ( incorrectly) with Zedille:

This was because it Zedille were fewer problems with display of the version, because some - now obsolete - fonts the characters with commas not contained ( the Microsoft code page 1250 about ), but probably the character with Zedille.

Since typographically distinguish the characters only slightly, the use of the signs with Zedille seemed indeed justifiable, however, the disadvantages of using false (not Unicode -compliant ) characters like searching are more serious. Therefore, only the typographically correct character should be used in future.

Slovak

Slovenian

Spanish

Czech

Turkic languages

Hungarian

Keyboard driver

Many of the special characters described here can be under X11 (GNU / Linux, BSD and other Unix-like ) directly with the keyboard when in the configuration file of the X server, xorg.conf, in the section for the definition of the keyboard XkbVariant option is set to the value of dead keys. Alternatively, even in the setting empfohleneren nodeadkeys, an even much larger input range using the Compose key (either Shift Ctrl or the right Windows key ) available.

For Windows, there is the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator to create your own keyboard driver. Thus created a keyboard driver for many European special characters ( and smart quotes ) are available from Darinka and Holger smoke.

Under Mac OS X the keyboard layout U.S. is recommended Advanced. They can be found under " country settings " > " Input Menu ".

Furthermore, there is the program of Keyman Tavultesoft (free for non-commercial use ) and it already finished keyboard driver, for example, the German Extended Unicode Keyboard by Lukas Pietsch.

In addition, enables the free and available for all major operating systems Neo keyboard layout to directly enter a variety of special characters and also makes the compose key under Windows.

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