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Flashcard Exchange supports 99% of the world’s languages. If you can type a character with your computer then our system will accept it! We have a character map tool that helps you type special characters that you might not otherwise know how to type. There are also a number of desktop tools available for your computer to help you type characters in foreign languages(MS Windows, Macs, and Linux).
On the web pages for creating or editing flashcards there is a link to our on-line character map. Using this tool you can search for special characters that you would otherwise have trouble typing. There are also a number of desktop tools available for your computer to help you type characters in foreign languages(MS Windows, Macs, and Linux).
Our character map tool is a character map for unicode characters. Because there are so many unicode characters available it can be difficult to find the character you want! To ease the search process we have split the character map in to standard groups of characters. If you are looking for a special character in a European language you probably will find it in one of the first groups: Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A or Latin Extended-B. The character map groups are well named so search around for your language. If you still can’t find your character consult the code charts.
Unicode is a character encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium. The aim of the standard is to provide universal way of encoding characters of any language, regardless of the computer system, or platform, being used. The core of Unicode, known as the Basic Multilingual Plane, contains space for over 65,000 characters. These include some 49000 characters from the world’s languages, include letters from alphabets, ideographs used in writing systems such as Chinese, and other characters such as currency and mathematical symbols. In addition to these, space is available for custom use, and supplementary code points are available for characters used in languages such as Chinese, where the total number of characters is not quantifiable. Visit the unicode homepage for more information.
There are a number of tools for your computer to help you type special characters and most of these tools will work very well with Flashcard Exchange, as well as with your word processor and other web sites.
These on-line resources will help you with language tools for your Mac:
Linux (and Unix in general) are very unicode friendly. There are a number of tools and fonts available.
This probably means you do not have the right fonts installed to view the characters you are trying to view. You will need to update your computer to solve this issue: MS Windows, Macs, and Linux.
- Data exports will not always work. This issue is also on the list of languages issues to be addressed.