
Use for ring semicolon for cedilla ^ for the circumflex u for the breve _ for the macron. To enter an accented character, type the character followed by the diacritic key (sort of mnemonic).When run, the script shows this simplest of dialogs: Ideally, the script is assigned to a keyboard shortcut for easy access. The script can also be used to enter miscellaneous characters using easy-to-remember keystrokes, such tm to enter the trademark symbol and ? for the inverted question mark.Ĭharacters are entered at the insertion point if there is one with any other selection (or no selection at all) the character is entered in the Find what field in the Find/Change dialog (in both the Text and the Grep tabs). The script lets you enter all kinds of combinations of letters and diacritics, even when the combination doesn't exist in the current font (see below for details). However, in much linguistic work, especially in typology, a wide range of characters is required that cannot be captured by a single keyboard layout. The script is not useful for typing one particular language such as German or French: for these languages, dedicated keyboards and keyboard layouts are available which makes typing those languages much easier. Enter characters with diacritics and other special sortsĮnter characters easily by using mnemonic keys for diacritics enter characters by their unicode value (including Plane-1 or five-digit unicode) enter certain predefined characters.
