# Entering Characters in Amaya

To enter ISO-Latin characters that are not directly available from the keyboard, Amaya uses the standard support provided by the Operating System. An optional multi-key support is also provided for Motif versions and Windows versions.

Amaya provides a mechanism for assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to characters that are not directly available from the keyboard. Some of them are pre-defined:

- To enter a non-breaking space, press `Ctrl space`.

  This character will be saved as an entity (`&nbsp;`) and is displayed in the source view with the following colored character: ~

- To enter a € (euro) character, press `Alt \` .
- To enter a «, press either `Alt [` (it depends on your keyboard).
- To enter a », press `Alt ]`.

See the description of the standard input method: Standard multi-key for Motif and GTK versions