Special characters and glyphs
Special characters and glyphs can be added to your text from any font installed on your device.
Commonly used items can be inserted via the on-screen keyboard.
Additional characters/glyphs can be inserted via the Glyph Browser panel, which allows you to view insert glyphs, Unicode characters or Unicode characters with alternates.
Commonly used characters available from the on-screen keyboard are:
| Category name |
Character name |
Displayed character |
Unicode character code |
| Breaks |
Line Break |
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U+2028 |
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Column Break |
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Frame Break |
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Page Break |
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U+000C |
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Odd Page Break |
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Even Page Break |
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| Symbols |
Bullet |
• |
U+2022 |
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Dagger |
† |
U+2020 |
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Double Dagger |
‡ |
U+2021 |
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Ellipsis |
… |
U+2026 |
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Inverted Question Mark |
¿ |
U+00BF |
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Inverted Exclamation Mark |
¡ |
U+00A1 |
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Copyright |
© |
U+00A9 |
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Trademark |
™ |
U+2122 |
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Registered Trademark |
® |
U+00AE |
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Paragraph Marker |
¶ |
U+00B6 |
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Section Marker |
§ |
U+00A7 |
| Maths |
Plus Minus |
± |
U+00B1 |
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Multiply |
× |
U+00D7 |
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Divide |
÷ |
U+00F7 |
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Approximately Equal |
≈ |
U+2248 |
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Not Equal |
≠ |
U+2260 |
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Less Than or Equal |
≤ |
U+2264 |
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Greater Than or Equal |
≥ |
U+2265 |
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Degree |
° |
U+00B0 |
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Per Mille |
‰ |
U+2030 |
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Pi |
π |
U+03C0 |
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Infinity |
∞ |
U+221E |
| Quotation Marks |
Double Left Quote |
“ |
U+201C |
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Double Right Quote |
” |
U+201D |
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Single Left Quote |
‘ |
U+2018 |
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Single Right Quote |
’ |
U+2019 |
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Double Base Quote |
„ |
U+201E |
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Single Base Quote |
‚ |
U+201A |
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Left Guillemet |
« |
U+00AB |
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Right Guillemet |
» |
U+00BB |
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Single Left Guillemet |
‹ |
U+2039 |
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Single Right Guillemet |
› |
U+203A |
| Dashes and Hyphens |
Em Dash |
— |
U+2014 |
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En Dash |
– |
U+2013 |
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Figure Dash |
‒ |
U+2012 |
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Soft Hyphen |
‑ |
U+00AD |
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Non-Breaking Hyphen |
‑ |
U+2011 |
| Spaces and Tabs |
Em Space |
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U+2003 |
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En Space |
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U+2002 |
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Non-Breaking Space |
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U+00A0 |
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Narrow Non-Breaking Space |
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U+202F |
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Zero-Width Space |
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U+200B |
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Hair Space |
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U+200A |
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Sixth Space |
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U+2006 |
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Thin Space |
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U+2009 |
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Quarter Space |
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U+2005 |
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Third Space |
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U+2004 |
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Punctuation Space |
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U+2008 |
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Figure Space |
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U+2007 |
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Zero-Width Non-Joiner |
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U+200C |
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Tab |
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U+0009 |
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Right Indent Tab |
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Indent to Here |
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Other characters you may encounter while editing text:
| Character name |
Unicode character code |
| Zero-Width Joiner |
U+200D |
| Paragraph Break |
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| End of Story |
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| Pin position |
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| Anchor |
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| Index mark |
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To add commonly used special characters/glyphs:
- Create an insertion point in your text.
- Tap the on-screen keyboard's Insert button.
- Swipe horizontally on the keyboard to locate the required character/glyph, then tap it.
To show special characters (paragraph marks, spaces and breaks) in text:
- On the Toggle Preview Mode menu (to the right of the Preview button), select Special Characters.
To insert characters using the Glyph Browser panel:
- Create an insertion point in your text.
- On the Text panel, open the Glyph Browser section.
- Select a Font, Font style and Subset from the pop-up menu options.
- Double-tap a glyph to add it at the insertion point.