There are characters not directly available from the keyboard
which you may want to appear in your document. Characters you
may want to use include typographical quote marks, dashes
longer than the standard hyphen, diphthongs and accented or
foreign language characters.
To enter special characters in RISC OS:
Select the desired character(s) using the !Chars application - they will be entered directly into your document.
Type Alt plus the ASCII code for the character you want using the numeric keypad.
To enter special characters in Windows:
Select the desired character(s) from the Character Map application and paste them into your document.
Type Alt plus the ASCII code for the character you want using the numeric keypad.