Unicode Explained

with the dieresis symbol, ¨. On such a keyboard, you would simply type ¨u to

produce ü. On the other hand, you might be able to use a method like Ctrl-: u on

European keyboards, too, but the colon might be placed in the period “.” key, so

that technically you would need to use Ctrl-Shift-; u. Similarly, Ctrl-Shift-` corre-

sponds to Ctrl-~, Ctrl-Shift-6 corresponds to Ctrl-^, Ctrl-Shift-7 corresponds to

Ctrl-&, and Ctrl-Shift-2 corresponds to Ctrl-@.

2. The euro sign can usually be typed using the AltGr key (or the Alt and Ctrl keys),

but there are differences between keyboard settings. Usually AltGr-E, AltGr-5,

AltGr-U, or AltGr-ε works.

3. Quotation marks can usually be typed in MS Word just by pressing the " key, if

Word has recognized or has been told the language of the text, so that it can convert

ASCII quotation marks to language-specific characters. In that mode, to type the

ASCII quotation mark or the ASCII apostrophe, first use the " or ' key, and then

immediately press Ctrl-Z to undo the replacement that Word makes.

4. Soft hyphen is not widely supported. In particular, MS Word does not recognize

it. You can insert a discretionary hyphen in MS Word by pressing Ctrl-hyphen, but

this inserts a control character, not the Unicode soft hyphen.

5. In the notations for typing en dash and em dash, the word “minus” denotes the

minus sign on the numeric keypad.

6. When the language has been ...