How to type special characters on a Windows 11 PC
by Barbara Krasnoff from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YK29)
Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Here's the situation: you're typing a report for work, and you suddenly have to write the phrase Jones nee Berkowitz." Or you are adding a phrase in Spanish and need to use the word anos." How do you add the special characters to the letters with your Windows 11 PC?
Special characters (also known as diacritical marks) may be more common in certain languages, but there are plenty of circumstances in which English speakers may need to use them. But because they are so rare in English, native English speakers may not have learned how to add those marks to documents, emails, or other writings. It's not difficult to add them to your Windows document, although it's not quite as smooth an operation as on a Mac, where all you have to do is...