Working with Special Characters

Oxygen XML Developer plugin provides support for special characters in various ways:

You can insert special characters using the Character Map feature.
Oxygen XML Developer plugin provides support for the Unicode characters.
For special characters that are not included in any of the default fonts, Oxygen XML Developer plugin will try to find that symbol in a fallback font.
Oxygen XML Developer plugin includes some encoding options and features to help determine how to handle documents with unsupported characters.
Oxygen XML Developer plugin allows you to choose the fonts to be used in the various editing modes and in some cases, changing the font may be a solution when special characters are not rendered as expected.
Oxygen XML Developer plugin supports bidirectional text, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and certain Asian languages, or other special characters that are combined into a single glyph.
Oxygen XML Developer plugin includes a contextual menu action that converts a sequence of hexadecimal characters to the corresponding Unicode character.
In Text mode, Oxygen XML Developer plugin includes several contextual menu actions (in the Source submenu) for encoding or decoding base64 schemes, base32 schemes, or hex schemes.

Tip: To edit documents written in languages that use special characters (such as Japanese or Chinese), change the font to one that supports the specific characters (a Unicode font). For the Windows platform, Arial Unicode MS or MS Gothic is recommended. To change the font in Oxygen XML Developer plugin, open the Preferences dialog box , go to Fonts. This preferences page allows you to select a font for each editing mode.