Special Characters and Emojis

Accents and other special characters can be added to some components.

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Last reviewed: July 26, 2022

Caution is required

Please be thoughtful in your use of special characters. Some special characters may be correct but display awkwardly on the page. Emoji meanings vary markedly from culture to culture and a poor but well-intentioned choice may confuse or even upset your audience.

Special Characters

Text components allow special characters such as accented letters, non-English fonts, and symbols. These can be created in another program like MS Word, copied from a website reference, or even created using keyboard shortcuts.

Master references of HTML Entity and Alt Codes

Emojis

Text components can include emojis. Copy-paste the symbol into the component dialog box from another source, but please be very thoughtful. Emoji meanings vary markedly from culture to culture and a poor but well-intentioned choice may confuse or even upset your audience.

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