Diacritics and character sets

Using diacritics and character sets

Sinopia has a "character chooser" that supports the use of multiple character sets including non-Latin characters and characters with diacritics. To open the "character chooser" click the button labeled ä next to a field.

Adding new characters and character sets

1. Visit this file in github (you will need a github account): https://github.com/LD4P/sinopia_editor/blob/master/static/specialcharacters.json
2. Click pencil to edit
3. To add new characters, type the character following the format that's already in the file, inserting the new character in the order in which you want it to appear in the character set.
4. To add a new character set, add a whole new block, again following the existing format.
5. At bottom of page choose "Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request" and then click the "Propose changes" button.
6. On the next screen, add brief information about your additions, and click "Create pull request".
7. Your changes will be reviewed by the Sinopia development team and included in the next release.