Using accents on letters – eg grave, acute

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  stpaulrepository · Member · Oct 2, 2012 at 8:55 pm

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  Can anyone tell me how to add, for example, an e acute or grave in the text or heading of a blog written mainly in English?

  Thank you in advance!
  Elizabeth

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justpi · Member · Oct 3, 2012 at 12:25 am

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  Visual editor: click the Insert Custom Character tool (omega icon).

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  stpaulrepository · Member · Oct 4, 2012 at 5:09 am

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  Dear Justpi
  Thank you – so easy when you know how! But how do you do this in the heading of the website? I access that via the Settings/General page and there does not seem to be a way of using the same tool. Can I get at that text in another way?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 4, 2012 at 5:36 am

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  I believe you can add “special characters” to titles of posts and the blog title with code. Most html won’t work with the titles (without custom CSS) but you can add the code for e acute or grave.
  I’m not sure this will show in these forums:
  http://brucejohnson.ca/SpecialCharacters.html
  eliminate the spaces in the code
  ´ & acute; & # 180; & # 900; {acute accent}

  Type the code just before the letter in your title.

  (This is different from inserting these special characters into a post.)

  See my crazy title here, though the code itself does not show:

  ťọ śêê ŧĥîņĝş ďįffěŗêńţĺý

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  stpaulrepository · Member · Oct 4, 2012 at 6:11 am

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  Dear Tess
  Brilliant!! Thank you!! I have managed it.
  I loved your crazy title! Mine is more prosaic but at least it is now correct as per the French spelling

  http://www.sacredheartandstteresa.wordpress.com

  Elizabeth

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 4, 2012 at 6:32 am

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  Oh Elizabeth, you are welcome.

  My post was just silliness to experiment with special characters so I would know they work here. It was a little joke to myself; you are the first person who was also interested.

  LOL! Happy blogging.

  There are keyboard shortcuts. On the Mac OS option e makes the accent: é or á or í and so on. I don’t know other operating systems.

  And there have been problems with these kinds of special characters in Polish here on wp.com. They may have been resolved by now??? the French ones work though.

  Anyway, happy blogging.

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  justpi · Member · Oct 4, 2012 at 10:17 am

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  Visual editor: click the Insert Custom Character tool (omega icon).

  But how do you do this in the heading of the website?

  You use the tool in the Visual editor then copypaste the character from the editor into the title field.
  (Or you can use HTML entities copied from webpages such as the one Tess suggested, or you can google for a word that includes the character you want and copy it from the internet.)

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  stpaulrepository · Member · Oct 4, 2012 at 5:31 pm

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  Dear Justpi
  Thanks again for the very helpful information. I have managed to make the changes in the heading successfully. I’ll keep this exchange on file for future reference.
  I’m very impressed with the support from WordPress – really it’s a great system.