How to add special characters

[insitus]

I am trying to add a special characters like "±, µ, etc".
How can I do? Thanks.

[ben_josephs]

If you search the help for
insert unicode
or
insert ansi
or
insert windows character
you be directed to a page entitled
How to Type Multilingual Characters
that is also accessible from the help contents page as
How To... | Edit Text | Type Multilingual Characters

This page explains that there is a clipbook for Windows-1252 ("ANSI") characters and that there is an alternative way to enter those or any other Unicode characters.

[insitus]

Thanks.
I am not that computer literate.
Do you mind to explain what characters belong to Unicode, ansi, and windows characters?

[AmigoJack]

I am not that computer literate

Then everything won't make much sense to you, I'm afraid.

what characters belong to Unicode

All. That's why "uni" is in the word: one code(point) for every character. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

ansi, and windows characters

ANSI/Windows is an encoding from the past. ASCII consists of the first 128 characters and is the same in Unicode, in ANSI and in almost every other encoding. ANSI's additional 128 characters are defined in one way, while many other codepages from the past defined their 128 additional characters slightly or hugely differently. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 - the main difference between ancient codepages and Unicode is: codepages were limited to 256 characters, Unicode has no limit.


Now how about to "type" every character? The same way you would type cyrillic characters (for russian text), or katakana characters (for japanese text), or hangul characters (for korean text): by adjusting your keyboard settings to tell your system which letters are print on your keyboard (after all they're just keys, not hardcoded letters). For a german keyboard layout, you actually have a µ key already.

Or, you just look up a table with all characters and copy your favorite ones. It would be far beyond TextPad's scope to give you a "character browser" - use external tables like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... al_symbols or http://www.unicode.org/charts/#symbols or http://www.utf8-chartable.de

[insitus]

Thank you very much for your effort and time for explaining these confusing lingos.