Text edit- Keystrokes for special characters

They've changed the keystroke I use to use for making a checkmark. It was 'Option v'. Now it's not. Is there a chart somewhere showing what teh keystrokes are now for special characters? Thanks so much for any help.
-Thom

Okay, I found this, http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10758?viewlocale=en_US . Which gives me the Edit/Special Characters. But I still do not find any keystrokes to make my checkmark.

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Keystrokes for special characters

hey guys : ) I was wondering if I could get help on how to make accented characters, as I have French this semester, and I need to type up some stuff. Any instructions how to?

Hey Tom,
Here are few links to some websites that list all the keystrokes. Most are based of the OPTION key. I currently use the accent marks for creating retail packaging that goes to Canada, so I understand your need in typing French.
http://faculty.weber.edu/tmathews/grammar/compmark.html
http://www.savetz.com/ku/ku/spinasparlez_vous_macintosh_tips_on_getting_the_right_accents_may1989.html
http://kb.iu.edu/data/anhf.html
Hope this helps.

Checking for Special Characters

I need to check if a textbox in my form containes special characters (entered by user). If there are any, I need to display an error message.
I have written a function but it's not working.
here's my function:
function checkForSpecialChracters(oFiled)
var userInput = oFiled.rawValue; // take the String entered by the user
var iChars = "@#$%^&*+=-[]\\\';,./{}|\":<>?~_";
for (var i = 0; i < userInput.length; i++)
if (iChars.indexOf(userInput.charAt(i)) != -1) {
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Thank you!

Paul,
It is working now. I don't know what I might have changed.
Here's my final function (It works!):
function checkForSpecialChracters(oFiled)
var userInput = oFiled.rawValue; // take the String entered by the user
var iChars = "@#$%^&*+=-[]\\\';,./{}|\":<>?~_";
var hasSpecialCharacter = false;
for (var i = 0; i < userInput.length; i++)
//app.alert("Value is: " + userInput.charAt(i));
if (iChars.indexOf(userInput.charAt(i)) != -1)
hasSpecialCharacter = true;
break;
} // end if
} // end For loop
if (hasSpecialCharacter)
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oFiled.fillColor = "255,100,50";
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HT204266 Does Text Edit exist for iPad?

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Keystroke combinations needed for special characters in specific fonts?

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Dynamic insert for Special Characters

Hello,
I'm running into a problem inserting data with Special Characters. I have a report (designed oracle reports), that takes data and inserts the data into table. I use the SRW.do_sql built in package in a before report trigger to process the data. However the problem that I'm running into is how to dynamically account for the special characters in a description field that I have. There is no way for me to predict where or how many can appear in a field. For example, I may have a field that contains data like:
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OR
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OR
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Martin

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I'm using SRW.DO_SQL procedure in oracle reports because that is one you can run text via reports. The report actually exports the results to a text file and insert the results into a table. Anyway, the SRW.DO_SQL isn't my problem but rather the special characters. I have researched the problem some more and I have found a solution. You can use the "replace" feature to do an insert/update of special characters. You also need to find the character number for each special character. I believe "&" is chr(38), "%" is chr(37), "#" is chr(35), "@" is chr(64), "'" is char(39). So the code would be:
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Dynamic text, system fonts, and special characters...

This one is boggling my mind so if someone can help, please
do
I've got a dynamic text area pulling text from a MySQL
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accents, umlauts, etc (multi-language site platform). Most of them
work fine, and ALL of them work fine when I'm on a Mac client.
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 (hex characters 146, 147, 148). I'm using the familiar
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are all my other special characters (umlauts, accents, etc) working
fine and just these things failing? It's also worth noting that
they look fine if I dump them out to a PHP file and pull it up in a
browser...
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against this for the better part of the day!!

Hi,
did you take a look at the "gateway.php' ? There you can
define charsets. Maybe a western europe charset will
help you out. Since french language is using a lot more
accents and so.
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When I copy and paste text into Captivate 8, special characters disappear

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Text Edit application for Mac Mini 10.4.11

I am not sure if everyone is familiar with my "Mac Mini Saga", ( BDAqua certainly is! - by the way, congratulations for passing the 11000 mark! ).
Now that the Mini is finally updated to 10.4.11,(without the original install discs), so that the elderly lady owner can use Skype, she would also like "my" Text Edit app. which is not listed in her apps. - i was told it should be there, but it is not!
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The original Text Edit, part of the System's original apps package, is more
integrated with the original system installation; and should not be missing.
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• Neo Office:
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Bug in APEX_UTIL.DOWNLOAD_PRINT_DOCUMENT for special characters?

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JSP diplays shows junk for special characters.

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Find out the sql query for special characters.

Hi,
I have the emp table with column name first_name.In that table i have lot records with first_name inlcudes the below mentioned special characters.
¡ , ¿, ,Ä,Å,ä,ª,À,Á,Ã,à,á,ã,å,Æ,æ,Ç,ç,È,É,Ê,Ë,è,é,ê,ë,Ì,Í,Î, Ï,ì,í,î,ï, Ñ,ñ, ô, º, Ò, Ó, Ô, Õ, Ö, Ø, ò, ó, õ, ö, ø, ß, Û, Ù, Ú, Ü,ù, ú, û, ü, ÿ,
I am looking for the records with includes the above mentioned special characters in the first_name column.
Can u please give the sql query to find out the records.
Thanks&Regards
N.Sivaraman

I am looking for the records with includes the above mentioned special characters in the first_name column.One way would be:
select emp.*
from emp,
       table (
         sys.odcivarchar2list ('¡',
                               'Ä',
                               'Å',
                               'ä',
                               'ª',
                               'À',
                               'Á',
                               'Ã',
                               'à',
                               'á',
                               'ã',
                               'å',
                               'Æ',
                               'æ',
                               'Ç',
                               'ç',
                               'È',
                               'É',
                               'Ê',
                               'Ë',
                               'è',
                               'é',
                               'ê',
                               'ë',
                               'Ì',
                               'Í',
                               'Î',
                               'Ï',
                               'ì',
                               'í',
                               'î',
                               'ï',
                               'Ñ',
                               'ñ',
                               'ô',
                               'º',
                               'Ò',
                               'Ó',
                               'Ô',
                               'Õ',
                               'Ö',
                               'Ø',
                               'ò',
                               'ó',
                               'õ',
                               'ö',
                               'ø',
                               'ß',
                               'Û',
                               'Ù',
                               'Ú',
                               'Ü',
                               'ù',
                               'ú',
                               'û',
                               'ü',
                               'ÿ'
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I'm trying to type my maths HW on my mac on textedit or word 2008. I'm trying to type the Z (integer symbol). Now I have found that in Special Characters in textedit but I cannot add a hot key to it for frequent use. In word 2008 I didn't find it, although I could paste it from textedit. What's the way out?

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hi
i would like to know how many characers are occupied for the below Russian characters. i am using UTF8 character set.
because we need to transfer from one database to other for reporting
inthe base databse it is stored and the field max length is 200
and in reportiung database it is 80 char
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Actual Russina Characters. -------- ('óë. Ãåðîåâ-Ïàíôèëîâöåâ 22')

Hi,
<snip>
how many characters or bytes it occupies
</snip>
you can use dump function:
SQL> select dump(first_name)
2 from employees
3 where first_name = 'Peter';
DUMP(FIRST_NAME)
Typ=1 Len=5: 80,101,116,101,114
<snip>
base databse it is stored and the field max length is 200 and in reportiung database it is 80 char
</snip>
in the reporting database:
alter table your_table modify column_name VARCHAR2(200);
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Tomek
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