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Special characters

Pootle can display clickable characters to help people insert characters which might be difficult to type. Earlier Pootle versions only displayed the special characters. This page allows people to specify which characters might be useful for translators.

For many languages this does not really help much, but we realise that many languages using the Latin alphabet with diacritics, this could help a lot. Well supported languages like French fall in this category, I guess that most French users probably have no input problems in general. If you think that this feature could help some members of your community on some pootle servers, you can also include your requests here.

For people using non-Latin scripts, consider if it will be useful to perhaps include things from the Latin keyboard that can’t be easily typed by translators in your language.

We will probably need to limit the number of characters, but hopefully we can find a reasonable compromise that will help many people.

Please ensure that you use a browser that supports UTF-8 encoding so that the existing text is kept in tact. Note that you might not be able to see all the characters on this page if you do not have the appropriate fonts installed. Please take care not to edit something inadvertantly.

See also

See also the page where you can describe special display settings for your language.

The characters

Afrikaans

áéíóúý äëïöü âêîôû è

Northern Sotho

šŠ

Tswana

šŠ êô

Venda

ḓḒḽḼṊṋṰṱ Ṅṅ

old orthography: áéíóú a̗e̗i̗o̗u̗

Vietnamese (vi)

àảãáạăằẳẵắặâầẩẫấậèẻẽéẹêềểễếệìỉĩíịòỏõóọôồổỗốộơờởỡớợùủũúụưừửữứựỳỷỹýỵđ₫«» ÀẢÃÁẠĂẰẲẴẮẶÂẦẨẪẤẬÈẺẼÉẸÊỀỂỄẾỆÌỈĨÍỊÒỎÕÓỌÔỒỔỖỐỘƠỜỞỠỚỢÙỦŨÚỤƯỪỬỮỨỰỲỶỸÝỴĐ

You could prioritize by excluding the characters covered by the Latin-1 codeset, which are available via most standard keyboards. Since Vietnamese is mostly composed of accented vowels as above, the priority should be to help users acquire the appropriate input systems and keyboard layouts. Relying on clicking each character from a palette would slow down translation severely. However, it would make translation possible in the short term for those who can’t yet input our language, or for those accessing computers which for some reason won’t use the correct input software.