Find more information about diacritics and special characters in Connexion client.
WorldCat and the online Library of Congress names and subjects authority file fully support entering diacritics and special characters from a character set adopted by the American Library Association (ALA) in records, for example, for items in Spanish, French, and other languages.
The ALA character set is widely used by libraries in English-speaking countries.
The character set allows the representation of characters, primarily the Roman alphabet and some special characters, and diacritics commonly used in Latin- based/influenced languages.
You can insert diacritics and special characters using keystrokes; or when you display a record via Edit > Enter Diacritics; or when you type a search, display a label, or find/replace text via an Enter Diacritics button in the associated dialogs
Enter a diacritic or special character after the letter it modifies.
For ligatures, paired diacritics, and multiple diacritics:
Enter diacritics from letter outward. Letter-DiacriticNearer-DiacriticFarther.
Enter letter with diacritics above and below in this order: Letter-DiacriticBelow- DiacriticAbove.
You can customize keystrokes for entering diacritics and special characters. You can change keystrokes for a character you use often, or assign it to a User Tool.