How Do I Type Special Characters in Ubuntu?
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How do I type special characters in Ubuntu terminal?

To enter a character by its code point, press Ctrl + Shift + U , then type the four-character code and press Space or Enter . If you often use characters that you can’t easily access with other methods, you might find it useful to memorize the code point for those characters so you can enter them quickly.

How do I type accents in Ubuntu?

Pressing the apostrophe key will place an acute accent (like on the é) on the following letter. So to type an é with the dead-key method, press the apostrophe key and then the “e.” To make a capital accented É, press and release the apostrophe, and then press the shift key and “e” at the same time.

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