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The Esperanto alphabet consists of 22 letters from the Latin alphabet plus 6 additional characters which are Latin letters with accent marks over them. These characters are often not available in computer systems which were designed for English. When a suitable font is not available, many Esperanto-speakers place the letter "x" or "h" or the symbol "^" next to a letter to represent the accent. However, this is just a work-around. To show the real characters, special fonts are needed. The two most-commonly used types of fonts are Latin-3 and Unicode.

Latin-3 (ISO-8859-3) fonts are able to display a wide number of European accented letters, including the Esperanto characters. However, Latin-3 fonts have to be downloaded and set-up by the user. On the other hand, Unicode fonts are automatically supported by most current web browsers.

The USEJ web page can be displayed in Unicode or using the x-method of indicating accents. To switch between the two formats, click on Unikodo or X-metodo in the upper left corner of the Esperanto pages.

The following websites explain Esperanto fonts and how to download them:

The section on fonts from the Virtual Esperanto Library (VEB)
Bertilo Wennergren's page on Esperanto letters in the Web
List of font websites in the Esperanto Internet Yellow Pages
Latin-3 Fonts recommended by Monda Turismo

To use Esperanto letters in your own documents, some of the following tools might be helpful:

Ek! -- Windows utility which provides macros to ease the typing of Esperanto characters in Unicode and Latin-3 (Jurij FINKEL)
Supersigno -- older Windows utility which provides macros for Latin-3 characters (Mark HAYWARD)
UniRed -- Windows word-processor that works alongside Ek! to allow editing of Esperanto documents (Jurij FINKEL)
Esperanto dictionary for the spell-checker ISpell (also works with UniRed) (Sergio PKROVSKIJ)
Esperanto packages for LaTeX (Sergio POKROVSKIJ)
Emacs modes for Esperanto (Sergio POKROVSKIJ)

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