Spanish Characters

[Animachristi]

I'm trying to write a few words in Spanish in an instructional animation. Does anyone know how to access for instance the upside down question mark, exclamation point, and the accent? Thanks! Cece

[Szalam]

Are you talking about in these forums, in your OS, or in a particular piece of Adobe software?

[Animachristi]

Yes, I'm sorry, I'm using Animate, trying to find the characters while in that application.

[Szalam]

I'll move it from the Forum Comments forum and into an Animate forum.

[Animachristi]

Thanks, sorry about that!

[Colin Holgate]

Here, you can borrow my one: ¿

How you get that depends on which system you're using. On Mac it's simply option-shift-?. On Windows there's some way you use the Alt key and then type some numbers. Here's a Wikipedia article on that: Inverted question and exclamation marks - Wikipedia

[Animachristi]

Thanks Colin, this method works in MS Word, but not in Animate unfortunately. Cece

[ClayUUID]

If you're on Windows you can use the charmap app to browse and copy all the special characters. You can also type them directly with Alt + the keycode on the numpad, however, Animate CC broke this functionality. I've reported this issue several times, still waiting on them to fix it. Maybe if more people report it it'll get a priority boost.

[Animachristi]

Thanks Clay, That's what I was afraid of as I was going through the codes that Colin referred to. Appreciate it. I'll mark this correct, but hopefully, the powers that be will recognize that there is still a problem.

For anyone else with this issue, I am going to create words in MS Word with the proper Spanish punctuation, bring them into AI, save them as objects, then create symbols out of them in Animate. Taking the long way around.

[ClayUUID]

Why are you doing all that? Most fonts support those characters natively.

[travisbrainerd · Accepted solution]

This is a low tech solution but I usually search Google for something like "upside down question mark" then copy, and simply paste it into the text field in Animate.

[Animachristi]

Thanks Travis--that's about the only thing that will work! Low tech, high tech, whatever completes the picture. Thanks again! Cece