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Input of Text
3.1 Special characters in different language families
Latin language family
With the Latin-based language families (Baltic, Central European, Turkish, Western), you
can enter most of the characters, i.e., the basic Latin alphabet, directly with your (e.g.,
Western) keyboard.
Most of the special characters, such as ĄáâåçđéèÍïŁŇñöőÓťŤůū, are made up of the Latin
letters A-Z a-z and diacritical characters such as acute ', breve ˘, cedilla, circumflex (caret) ˆ,
point ˙, colon (dieresis, trema) ¨, double-acute ˝, grave accent ', háček (caron) ˇ, macron ˉ,
ogonek (nasal hook, crooked hook) ˛, squiggle ˚, slash /, hyphen – or tilde ˜.
Other characters of the alphabet are special letters (Þþ, Ðð, ß) or ligatures (Ææ, Œœ, IJij).
These are supplemented by language-specific abbreviations and punctuation marks, e.g., for
the endings of the ordinal numbers in Spanish (ª and º) as well as the upside-down
exclamation and interrogation marks (¡ and ¿).
The input methods described in the following will apply without restrictions to the Latin-based
language families.
Greek/Cyrillic language family
Certain special considerations need to be taken into account when inputting texts using
Greek or Cyrillic fonts.
Read Section "Special considerations when working with Greek and Cyrillic texts" for
additional information.
East Asian languages
Certain special considerations also need to be taken into account when generating texts in
Japanese, Chinese or Korean.
Read Section "Special considerations when working with East Asian texts" for additional
information.
Generating target language texts (TX2)
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