Type Special Characters with a Chromebook (Accents, Symbols, Em Dashes)

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1. Denis de Castro  

   Thanks Jack, that’s useful. Also—what’s that editor you’re using in the screenshot?

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   • ፍልይyoGEyðø¬  

     CTRL+SHIFT+ U+2020=

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   • Jade Odom  

     Hey, I think this helps because I was trying to go to websites to see how I could do the upside-down (inverted) question mark and this helps.

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2. Laimonas  

   How would you type + or – in Sub/Superscript. Other than that, you mate, have solved me sooo many problems so thank you.

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3. Troll  

   You can do ub0 space and then you get the degree symbol.

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4. NBK2006  

   there is chinese in unicode, too. this is CTRL+SHIFT+U (8888)= 袈

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5. Hector M Lugo  

   Wow! Why are computer makers still making this so difficult? The world is getting smaller, more people speak multiple languages than don’t in the world, yet computer makers like to pretend no one speaks anything but Enlgish. SMH

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6. woodles  

   Does anyone know the code for a checkbox (tick) trying to fill out an online form is driving me crazy.

   Thank you.

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   • Jack Brualfnslkf  

     yeet

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   • bob  

     Me too

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7. Andra  

   How do you make an ¨a¨ with an over line; the long A symbol????

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   • Ethan  

     Ā is U+100, and ā is U+101

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8. Denis de Castro  

   @Andra Try control-shift-U and 0100 or 0101 (Wikipedia—macron (diacritic)). Cheers

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9. Yashmyn Jackson  

   Jack Busch,
   Thank you very much for this. You’ve just been bookmarked.

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10. Yashmyn Jackson  

    Jack, unfortunately, I don’t know how to get rid of that particular photo that’s appearing with my post. I literally don’t know where that photo is stored (can’t find it on Facebook or Google), so I can’t delete it and replace it with my regular Google profile photo. Any way you could delete it and replace it with some generic image or something? Thank you for any help you can provide in ridding the Internet of that photo. :-|

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11. john frankenfurt  

    omg this is awesome look at this ²

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    • Em  

      What’s the pi sign ?

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12. Some Guy  

    You know you can just go to insert then special characters and type the name

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13. Phoebe Tran  

    how do you make the oppsite arrow way of » ?

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    • YAM  

      Try control + shift + u00AB

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14. Jeff Frane  

    New to chromebook and have used character map for ages. This was driving me nuts. Thank you!

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15. Johan  

    A solution that works better for me is this: change your keyboard to US International Keyboard (Settings/Device/Keyboard/Change language and input settings/Input method). When you´ve done that, to get, for example, an á, you type an apostrophe followed by a; ò is the grave accent (top left) followed by o; ñ is the tilde (top left) folowed by n; Ü is double quotes followed by Shift+u, and so on. Experiment on your own; it´s quite easy to get used to. If you need the accent symbol on it´s own (as in the word it´s), simply type it twice.

    This system doesn´t give access to all diacritical signs used in European languages like Polish, Czech, etc., or the German ß, but at least it´s quicker than having to look up the Unicode value.

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    • Matthias Walter Schoener  

      @Johan — Agree with your points, just want to point out that the ¨scharfes s¨ *is* actually available with the international keyboard. I have German language enabled on my US Pixelbook. And with the Intl keyboard activated, if I type + s, I get ß.

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      • Matthias Walter Schoener  

        that should read ¨right alt + s¨. My apologies.

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16. jacob j hendrickson  

    English: OMG Thanks you
    Chinese: 哦，谢谢

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17. Katy  

    Very helpful! Awesome!!

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18. YaBoiiFlare  

    If you do unicode 230 you will end out with this: Ȱ It’s like an omega symbol, but upside down!

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19. David Riley  

    Mr. Busch. Thanks for that. As an editor, you might be able to amend the article for its online appearance. Consider the following:

    “Now, type in the unicode entry for the special character you want. An em dash is “2014.”

    [Instructions]

    unicode chromebook special characters
    Hit enter and voila, em dash: —”

    The last line should read – Release the control+shift+U, then hit enter and….

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20. Dariusz  

    Yet no way to insert the Euro symbol – very annoying

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    • Richard  

      On my keyboard, you press right Alt and 4, it gives a euro.

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21. Barbara A Hallowell  

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! After nothing but PC’s in my life, I just made the switch to a Chromebook laptop, which I love. I have lots of friends in Ireland with fadas in their names, and I could not figure out how to alt+ keycode on this thing, then I found you :)

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22. kylie  

    wow ty :) this is bookmarked also CONTROL + ALT + SHIFT + 2020 = †
    :}

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23. Richard  

    this is incredibly useful, many problems have been solved at a stroke, thank you,

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