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Character Palette Help

Introduction

The Character Palette provides a convenient way to access characters that are not on your keyboard, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols and punctuation marks.
You can customise the contents of the applet to suit your requirements.

Character Palette supports the UTF-8 character encoding so you can use the palette to display or copy any Unicode character.

To Show the Character Palette Toolbar

To show the Character Palette toolbar, right-click on any existing toolbar, and select Character Palette Toolbar.

Getting Characters

To Select a Character

To select a character from the palette and insert the character into a text string, perform the following steps:

1. In the palette, click on the character that you require. The character button is pressed in to indicate that the character is selected.
2. Point to the location in an application where you want to put the character and paste.
3. There’s a simpler alternative. By checking Paste with middle-click in the preferences dialog, you could insert the character with only one click.

To deselect the character, click it again or click another character.

To Display a Predefined Palette of Characters

You can change the characters that are displayed in the application from the default palette to a predefined palette of characters.
To display a palette of predefined characters, perform the following steps:

1. Click on the Character Palette menu, with a down arrow on the left of the toolbar.
2. Click on the palette that you want to display.

You can select the character that you require from the palette of characters that is displayed in the application, then insert the character into your text string.

Customising Character Palette

Configuring Palettes

To configure Character Palette, click on the Character Palette menu, then choose Preferences. The preferences dialogue contains the palettes list box, which lists the palettes that are available from the applet.

• To add a new palette to the applet, click on the Add button.
• To delete a palette from the applet, select the palette, then click on the Delete button.
• To modify a palette, select the palette, then click on the Edit button. Then you can modify the palette in the Edit Palette dialogue.

Author of this document

Authors for the original GNOME version:
Dan Mueth <d-mueth@uchicago.edu>
Sun GNOME Documentation Team <gdocteam@sun.com>

Adapted for this Firefox toolbar version:
Ryan Li <ryan@ryanium.com>