[gnome-user-docs] g-h/tips-specialchars: Wrote 3/5 sections of special characters

[Shaun McCance <shaunm src gnome org>]

commit a001b7b633bb20c8471289e4bbf0e00549370d20
Author: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
Date:   Sun Mar 20 16:38:59 2011 -0400

    g-h/tips-specialchars: Wrote 3/5 sections of special characters

 gnome-help/C/tips-specialchars.page |   75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/gnome-help/C/tips-specialchars.page b/gnome-help/C/tips-specialchars.page
index 6a6a1a5..dff7d2c 100644
--- a/gnome-help/C/tips-specialchars.page
+++ b/gnome-help/C/tips-specialchars.page
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
       id="tips-specialchars">
   <info>
     <link type="guide" xref="tips"/>
-    <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-03-19" status="stub"/>
+
+    <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-03-19" status="incomplete"/>
 
     <credit type="author copyright">
       <name>Shaun McCance</name>
@@ -17,22 +18,88 @@
 
   <title>Enter special characters</title>
 
-  <p>XXXXX</p>
+  <p>You can enter and view thousands of characters from most of the world's
+  writing systems, even those not found on your keyboard. This page lists
+  some different ways you can enter special characters.</p>
+
+  <links type="section">
+    <title>Methods to enter characters</title>
+  </links>
 
   <section id="charmap">
-    <title>Character Map</title>
+    <title>Character map</title>
+    <p>GNOME comes with a character map application that allows you to browse
+    all the characters in Unicode. Use the character map to find the character
+    you want, and then copy and paste it to wherever you need it.</p>
+    <p>You can find <app>Character Map</app> in the <gui>Activities</gui> overview.
+    For more information on the character map, see the
+    <link href="ghelp:gucharmap">Character Map Manual</link>.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="compose">
     <title>Compose key</title>
+    <p>A compose key is a special key that allows you to press multiple keys
+    in a row to get a special character. For example, to type the accented
+    letter <em>é</em>, you can press <key>compose</key> then <key>'</key>
+    then <key>e</key>.</p>
+    <p>Keyboards don't have specific compose keys. Instead, you can define
+    one of the existing keys on your keyboard as a compose key.</p>
+    <steps>
+      <title>Define a compose key</title>
+      <item><p>Click your name in the top bar and select <gui>System
+      Settings</gui>.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Click <gui>Region and Language</gui>.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Select the <gui>Layouts</gui> tab and press
+      <gui>Options</gui>.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Find the group called <gui>Compose key position</gui>.
+      Select the key or keys you would like to behave as a compose key.
+      You can choose keys like <key>Caps Lock</key>, either of the
+      <key>Alt</key> keys, or the menu key. Any keys you select will
+      then only work as a compose key, and will no longer work for
+      their original purpose.</p></item>
+    </steps>
+    <p>You can type many common characters using the compose key, for
+    example:</p>
+    <list>
+      <item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>'</key> then a letter to
+      place an acute accent over that letter, such as <em>é</em>.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>`</key> (backtick) then a
+      letter to place a grave accent over that letter, such as
+      <em>è</em>.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>"</key> then a letter to
+      place an umlaut over that letter, such as <em>ë</em>.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Press <key>compose</key> then <key>-</key> then a letter to
+      place a macron over that letter, such as <em>Ä?</em>.</p></item>
+    </list>
+    <p>For more compose key sequence, see <link
+    href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Common_compose_combinations";>the
+    compose key page on Wikipedia</link>.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="ctrlshiftu">
-    <title><keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Shift</key><key>u</key></keyseq></title>
+    <title>Code points</title>
+    <p>You can enter any Unicode character using only your keyboard with the numeric
+    code point of the character. Every character is identified by a four-character
+    code point. To find the code point for a character, find the character in the
+    character map application and look in the status bar or the <gui>Character
+    Details</gui> tab. The code point is the four characters after <gui>U+</gui>.</p>
+
+    <p>To enter a character by its code point, hold down <key>Ctrl</key> and
+    <key>Shift</key>, type <key>u</key> followed by the four-character code
+    point, then release <key>Ctrl</key> and <key>Shift</key>. 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.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="layout">
     <title>Keyboard layouts</title>
+    <p>XXXXX: write keyboard layouts page, link</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="im">
+    <title>Input methods</title>
+    <p>XXXXX: write input methods page, link</p>
   </section>
 
 </page>