I'm a very fast typist in Korean, Japanese, Mandarin (traditional only), Vietnamese, and Taiwanese, so I use the standard input methods for these. For western European languages, I typically use an international Spanish keyboard, but it has its limitations, like Portuguese nasals and Scandinavian letters, but I usually copy and paste as I don't use them that often. When I type in Slavic languages or in Georgian or Khmer, I typically switch the keyboard to that language as I've gotten used to key placement.

What I have is a sheet of special characters, mostly IPA and lots of combinations, and a few other common alphabets that I commonly use.

I'm probably different than most people (unless you're a polyglot publisher), so my situation won't make too much sense for the typical person. The nature of my business means that I'm having to produce tons of weird and special characters all the time.

When typing normally, for example гЃ™гЃїгЃљгЃї, your text will automatically get changed to йљ…гЂ…, so there's no need to worry too much about if and when you should input гЂ….

For example, if you copy and paste ж™‚гЂ… into Microsoft Word over and over again, at the beginning of the next line, Word won't allow гЂ… to appear in the first position (make sure you set the language to Japanese to take advantage of this feature). In this case, the preceding character is simply repeated on the next line. Since some publications have equidistant graphs, carrying one graph to the next line isn't allowed. гЂ… cannot appear as the first character on a line.гЂ… is considered a symbol, not a Chinese character, despite its origin.But there are still a few rules to be aware of: There is not too much concern about the rules of using гЂ… today since so much is automated by computers. дє”е€†гЂ…гЂ…: gobugobu (гЃ”гЃ¶гЃ”гЃ¶) - it doesn't just repeat the preceding one character.и¤‡гЂ…гЂ…з·љ: fukufukufukusen (гЃµгЃЏгЃµгЃЏгЃµгЃЏгЃ›г‚“) indicating how many rail tracks, so.Many Uses of the Japanese Kanji Iteration Mark гЂ…Д«esides common uses mentioned above, other special uses are occasionally encountered: The only language to continue using this repetition today is Japanese you won't find it used in Chinese any longer. The picture below is from a bronze vessel with еђеђе«е« engraved on it. The character already existed 3000 years ago during the Shang Dynasty (е•†жњќ). гЂ» History of This Japanese Kanji Iteration Mark The symbol even has a different form when written vertically: This is because this Japanese kanji iteration mark is derived from the grass script style (which is the Chinese version of cursive writing) of the character д»ќ (pronounced tГіng in Mandarin and GUP: gГЎng / TL: kГўng in Taiwanese, all meaning 'the same'). The shape of the symbol is actually a bit tricky to write. In friendly conversation, just call it гѓЋгѓћ (noma) in Japanese, which are two legitimate katakana letters. But just like English, all these names sound too formal. In Japanese, this Japanese kanji iteration mark is referred as the dancing mark: odoriji (иёЉг‚Ље—), or repetition symbols: kasaneji (й‡ЌгЃе—), kurikaeshikigЕЌ (з№°г‚Љиї”гЃ—иЁеЏ·), or hanpukukigЕЌ (еЏЌеѕ©иЁеЏ·). According to Wikipedia, it is called the Japanese kanji iteration mark, although this might be harder to remember on the tip of your tongue.

In casual conversation we can call it the repetition character. If any Japanese character has multiple readings, this one sure beats them all! This came up in a Chinese conversation I was having the other day, when I realised there's no easy way to refer to this symbol.

Japanese conji symbols