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  2. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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    To use the shortcut, turn on NumLock / Fn, and make sure the cursor is flashing where you want the symbol to go. Press and hold the alt key, and then press numbers. You don’t need to press the ...

  3. Diacritic - Wikipedia

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    A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω (diakrínō, "to distinguish"). The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in ...

  4. Combining character - Wikipedia

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    Combining diacritical marks are also present in many other blocks of Unicode characters. In Unicode, diacritics are always added after the main character (in contrast to some older combining character sets such as ANSEL ), and it is possible to add several diacritics to the same character, including stacked diacritics above and below, though ...

  5. Combining Diacritical Marks - Wikipedia

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    Combining Diacritical Marks. Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters. It also contains the character "Combining Grapheme Joiner", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actually separates characters that would otherwise be considered a single ...

  6. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    Diacritical Marks, also known as 'diacritics', are orthographical characters that indicate a special phonetic quality for a given character. They occur mostly in foreign languages. But in English a fair number of imported terms have diacritical marks". ^ a b Burchfield, R.W. (1996). Fowlers's Modern English Usage (3 ed.).

  7. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    Caret (The freestanding circumflex symbol is known as a caret in computing and mathematics) Circumflex (diacritic), Caret (computing), Hat operator. ̂. Circumflex (diacritic) Grave, Tilde. Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic. : Colon. Semicolon.

  8. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1]

  9. Help:Entering special characters - Wikipedia

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    On a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system, many special characters that have decimal equivalent codepoint numbers below 256 can be typed in by using the keyboard's Alt + decimal equivalent code numbers keys. For example, the character é (Small e with acute accent, HTML entity code é) can be obtained by pressing Alt + 130.