The "Special character" button is located in the "Special Tools" area of the OE toolbar, it looks like this:

The "Special character" button

This button allows you to insert special characters.

1. Position the cursor at a location where you wish to add a special character.

2. Click the "Special character" button. A modal dialog with a table of special characters will appear:

   

   The "Insert special character" dialog.

3. To insert a character, simply click on it. To view an larger version of a character, hover the mouse pointer over it and check the lower left corner of the dialog.

Please note that special characters are inserted "as is" without any XML tags and they can not be classified. When the system generates the XHTML output, many of the special characters will be rendered as HTML entities.