NewsForge: A Tip for Inserting Special Characters Easily Into OpenOffice.org Documents

“OpenOffice.org lets you process multiple languages within the
same document easily, as long as you use only the characters your
keyboard offers you. Anything beyond that requires you to Insert
> Special Character. This is acceptable, as long as you don’t
need to enter too many of these special characters. This article
discusses a convenient way to mix two or more languages in small
amounts, as with single words or single characters.

“Imagine you’re an academic writing a book about Vietnam. The
Vietnamese writing system is based upon the Latin script, but it’s
enhanced with a load of diacritic marks on top of or beneath the
characters

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