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The characters are displayed at the bottom of the dialog. When you close the dialog with <emph>OK</emph>, all displayed characters in the selected font are inserted in the current document.</paragraph> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 51*4de4f6eeSmseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3153031" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">In any text input field (such as the input fields in the <emph>Find & Replace</emph> dialog) you can press Shift+<switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline>+S to open the <emph>Special Characters</emph> dialog.</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 54*4de4f6eeSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155630" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="UNIX">At present there are three ways of entering letters with accents directly from the keyboard. 55cdf0e10cSrcweir</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> 56*4de4f6eeSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154897" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="UNIX"><emph>Solaris:</emph> Using a Sun keyboard. First press the Compose key to the right of the space bar, then enter the first and second modifiers. 57cdf0e10cSrcweir</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> 58*4de4f6eeSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145315" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="UNIX"><emph>Linux / NetBSD:</emph> Using the dead-keys. In an xterm window first press the (´) or (`) key. The character should not appear on the screen. Now press a letter, such as "e". The e is given an accent, é or è. If not, then check in the XF86Config file if a "nodeadkeys" XkbdVariant has been loaded there and replace it. You may also have set the environment variable SAL_NO_DEADKEYS, which deactivates the dead-keys. 59cdf0e10cSrcweir</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> 60*4de4f6eeSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="UNIX"><emph>All Unix systems:</emph> (Alt Graph) as additional compose key. The (Alt Graph) key can work in $[officename] like the Compose key, if you set the environment variable SAL_ALTGR_COMPOSE. The (Alt Graph) key must trigger a mode_switch, so, for example, xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_R = Mode_switch" must be set. First press (Alt Graph), then the first modifier, then the second modifier. The characters are combined as described on a Solaris system in the file /usr/openwin/include/X11/Suncompose.h. 61cdf0e10cSrcweir</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 63*4de4f6eeSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149047" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><link href="text/shared/01/04100000.xhp" name="Special Characters">Special Characters</link></paragraph> 64*4de4f6eeSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153896" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><link href="text/shared/01/06040200.xhp" name="AutoCorrect">AutoCorrect</link></paragraph> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 66cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 67