I ack only type special characters, so I'm locked out. Help?

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>> In Fireworks MX, I can type special characters via
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>> input a large portion of the full Unicode range this
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>> General Puncuation (8192-8303) and Geometric Shapes
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>> processor or from the Character Map, then paste into
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