Entering Special Characters.

User requires information on entering special characters (i.e.: a with umlat, etc.) as part of a name. So long as the language code allows for such, what is the easiest way to accomplish such? User is using forms via IE.

I would think that the easiest way is to use OS level keyboard layouts. In XP they all come with the OS and its as easy as activating a new layout in the Regional and Language options Control Panel applet. Once you have done that you can switch between layout with a configurable key combination.
If that is not an option you can also enter umlauts with the Alt-[ASCII number] combination but that requires the user to remember the number for each umlaut.

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When i try to enter 2ºC after updating the datbase it is converted to 2ÂºC. All special characters are prefixed with Â. Pls suggest some better way ..

This normally relates to your unicode set you are using. For example the database is using a different way of storing data than how it's being parsed.
One quick/dirty fix is to save the data using HTML encoded elements, for example ©
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[Unicode Support|http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/]

Entering special characters at the command line.

I'm writing a simple program in java that automates certain processes in learning a foreign language.
This includes holding a database of vocabulary within the context of a sentence and testing a student on words they have encountered.
Nothing too tricky, except that I am having trouble with entering special characters at the command line. I'm not really surprised by this and was hoping that someone could help me.
I'm using a mixture of Solaris 8 and Mac OS X 10.3 for running the software, so anyone with any input on either of these systems will be able to help.
The characters I am trying to enter are the following:
�,�,�,�,�,�,�,�,�,�,�,�.
They are latin, and used in Spanish amongst other languages.
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From looking at the web it appears that these characters can be input using the
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It's a problem that could be encountered in different circumstances, in this circumstance it is with a program I am writing in java.
I anticipate that these days not that many applications are delivered that require use of the command line, but since I am still learning Java it is necessary to explore this avenue.
It's interesting actually since presumably developers writing code for the international market need to accomodate characters similar to those I am attempting to enter, and more that are less familiar to me such as far and middle eastern scripts, and of course many others.
We (possibly) assume that since a character is printed on our keyboard it is a simple matter to read it in. But what if I was a Spanish student wanting to type a character into the command line and that character wasn't there? I believe that Spanish (and variants of that language) is the third most spoken language on the planet.
These characters are often relatively easy to enter in office and internet applications amongst others but apparetly not so at the command line.
Maybe this question is more suitably asked of the Unix community but I thought it a good idea to try Java since i was writing Java code and that many Java programmers could have encountered the same problem.

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Best regards,
Christian Kirchhoff

Make sure your operating settings match AE's language. Also pick such characters from a font that supports the correct Unicode range (the default system fonts for instance). If that still fails, restart your system and/ or AE. This may take several attempts and is annoying, but these issues have no clear pattern to them, so it's hard to make out the exact cause.
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Hello to all!
Have been trying to get in a special character [the tick mark] onto a text title on my current project. Had gone to the special character option under EDIT menu, and added the desired special character to the 'favourite' list, but after that I do not know how to move ahead. Would like help.
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I'm trying to produce some artwork in Photoshop Elements with some French text in it, so I need to know how to input special characters for the letters with accents. Anyone got any ideas - I've tried looking for a glyph menu but that doesn't seem to exist on Elements.

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Photoshop elements doesn't have a Glyphs panel or menu.
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windows
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html
mac
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codemac.html

How to save Special Characters in oracle?

Is there any way to enter special characters such as ºC ? i am using J2EE and Oracle 9 i.
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This has nothing do to with NLS_LANGUAGE. In general, character set processing depends on NLS_LANG setting (which is an OS setting and not a instance initialization parameter) and database character set. To understand NLS_LANG see OTN NLS_LANG FAQ http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/globalization/htdocs/nls_lang%20faq.htm.
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We have set up a dynamic columns for business workplace. One of the field displays the comments entered by the user. Some users are able to see the values entered perfectly. But for some users, if we enter special characters like @gopal, it is not displaying the value in dynamic column.
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Problem with special characters (umlaut)

Hi,
I have a text box in my form.
when I am entering the normal characters it working fine and the values are
persisting quiet well in the database but when I am entering special characters (umlaut characters),
it is not storing them properly in the database.
I have checked in the logs at the application server side and the problem is while getting the values from
the request. The JSP which is submitting the request I have explictly put the following line:
request.setCharacterEncoding("iso-8859-1");
But this also not seems to be working.
Could you please let me know the resolution of this problem.
Thanks in advance
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I have checked the database and there is no problem there.
To check if I am getting the correct values from the JSP I have put the following code in my action class:
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                                   log.debug("Character Encoding value of � is "+Character.getNumericValue('�'));
                                   log.debug("Character Encoding value of � is "+Character.getNumericValue('�'));
                                   log.debug("Character Encoding value of � is "+Character.getNumericValue('�'));
                                   log.debug("Character Encoding value of � is "+Character.getNumericValue('�'));
                                   log.debug("Character Encoding value of � is "+Character.getNumericValue('�'));
                                   String str = value.toString();
                                   char[] remarkArray = new char[str.length()];
                                   str.getChars(0, (str.length()-1), remarkArray, 0);
                                   for (int i = 0; i < remarkArray.length; i++)
                                        log.debug("Encoding value of "+remarkArray[i]+" is "+Character.getNumericValue(remarkArray));
In the remarhs I am setting the value in the form as "��"
and I am getting the following in the logs:
Character Encoding value of ─ is -1
Character Encoding value of � is -1
Character Encoding value of ▄ is -1
Character Encoding value of � is -1
Character Encoding value of � is -1
Character Encoding value of � is -1
Encoding value of ├ is -1
Encoding value of ┐ is -1
Encoding value of ├ is -1
Encoding value of ┐ is -1
Encoding value of ├ is -1
Encoding value of ┐ is -1
Encoding value of ├ is -1
Encoding value of ┐ is -1
Encoding value of ├ is -1
Encoding value of � is -1
Encoding value of ├ is -1
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Image Capture and special characters in file names.

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Would mind providing a screenshot about how your Content Query Web Part rendering in your environment?
In my environment, it displays the filename which contains periods:
I would suggest you create a new page and insert a Content Query Web Part to perform the test again.
Feel free to reply with the test result or if there any progress.
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Using special characters

How do you enter special characters (such as curved quotes) in a headline that is in caps? I have tried using the formula "alt +) or alt + Shift + ) and get no result. If I do the same in a paragraph of regular text, it works. Thanks.

On the Mac you can get the curled quotes via Alt and one or two other keys, depending on your language.
You can access a preview of the keyboard via system preferences > keyboard, input sources, activate to show in the menu,
It is faster to get used to write with alt and shift for extended characters on the mac than using the glyph panel.
Here is the German (Germany and Austria) keyboard on the Mac:
With other languages you have a different layout, even with German (Swiss) it would be different, EN-US is different than EN-UK.

Keystroke combinations needed for special characters in specific fonts?

How do you see the required keystrokes to enter special characters? Very frustrating!!! Using Pages to help my wife create a brochure. We wanted to use one of the symbols available in the font "Type Embellishments One LET" (which I assume installed with Pages). In Font Book we could see all the possible characters BUT NOT HOW TO TYPE THEM. We ended up typing scores of keys and keystroke combinations to finally see the one we wanted, then use cut and paste. There must be a better way but we (along with some Mac Support people at my work) cannot find it.
Is there a way to do this without buying a program like PopChar. Seems like this should be fundamental to using a Mac out of the box.
Thank you for any suggestions.

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This is the table I am creating...
From row 25 on, I am only able to enter data into the cell through the toolbar at the top and not directly into the cell itself. I believe that this problem originates from the special characters I have inserted in the previous records because if I do not use special characters, then the spreadsheet acts flawlessly. Have there been issues in Numbers with data entry, the size of a table, and using special characters?

I would try removing the rows with "special" characters one at a time to see which one is causing the problem

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.... and this is what is being stored in the database. This would be ok, but when the record is displayed again in the browser, it is not resolving the unicode back to the correct character.
How do I allow the entry of these special characters and have them correctly displayed on the web page after saving ? I also have a similar problem with Hungarian and Polish.
Many thanks,
Brent Harlow

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Once I changed
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"/>
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