5. Scroll through the different options and select the character you want to use. The emoji picker lets you type out special characters like stars, arrows, and currency symbols, among others.

(For example, it shows that you can type ™ by pressing Option+2.) The Character Viewer shows you all the symbols, special characters, and non-Roman characters you can use, separated into categories.

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If you want to create your own special characters and symbols, you can use the Eudcedit tool. Because this tool creates user-defined special characters, it is also known as Private Character Editor.

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Miscellaneous symbols This comes as a welcome change, as prior to this, ChromeOS only supported typing special characters by using a keyboard shortcut and a set of numbers.

Character Map displays the selected font at the top of the window and all its characters below. Click the symbol you want and click Select to stage it in the box below.

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How to type special characters and symbols on a Chromebook This method requires you to know the character code for the special character — also known as Unicode — that you want to type out.