VisualEditor/Special characters
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The special characters tool in VisualEditor makes it easy for users to insert special characters, even if the characters are not present on the users' keyboards.
VisualEditor shares the list of special characters with WikiEditor, the default wikitext editor. This list is shared between all wikis, and you do not need to do anything to enable it on your wiki.
To access it, press the special character button (Ω) to open the tray of characters:
Click on one of the displayed characters to insert it. Click the special character button again to close it.
Help and troubleshooting
- If the system does not let you save, check for missing or extra commas using a tool like https://jsonformatter.org or https://jsonformatter-online.com. If the JSON formatting is not perfect, you will not be able to save your changes to the message.
- You can request further help at VisualEditor/Feedback
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Examples
- VisualEditor screenshot – special character with often used - it.png
- VisualEditor screenshot – special character with often used - ru.png
- VisualEditor screenshot – special character with often used - de.png