SAS Visual Analytics Home Page, SAS Visual Analytics Explorer, SAS Visual Analytics Designer, and SAS Visual Analytics Viewer 7.1 have been tested against the accessibility standards
for electronic information technology that were adopted by the U.S. Government under Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (2008 draft proposal initiative update).
It was also tested against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 levels A and AA, part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C).
SAS Visual Analytics Administrator, SAS Visual Analytics Graph Builder, SAS Visual Data Builder 7.1 have not been tested against U.S. Section 508 standards and W3C Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). If you have questions about its accessibility, send email to accessibility@sas.com or call SAS Technical Support.
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Landmarks are references
to the primary areas of an application's user interface. They
provide a quick and easy way for keyboard users to navigate to these
areas of the application.
To access the list of
landmarks that are available for a specific context, press Ctrl+F6
to open the Landmarks window. Use the arrow
keys to select a landmark, and then press Enter to navigate to that
area of the application.
SAS Visual Analytics
contains the following interfaces:
To customize the application
window and its features, open the Preferences window.
On the SAS Visual Analytics home page, click the Edit
Preferences button to open the Preferences window.
For more information about the layout and features of SAS Visual Analytics,
An application’s
theme is the collection of colors, graphics, and fonts that appear
in the application. The following themes are provided with this application:
SAS Corporate (default theme), SAS Blue Steel, SAS Dark, SAS High
Contrast, and SAS Light. To change the theme for the application,
open the Preferences window, and go to the Global
Preferences page. From this page, you can also invert
the application colors or configure the indicator that shows where
the focus is located in your user interface. On
the SAS Visual Analytics home page, click the Edit Preferences button
to open the Preferences window. For more
information about the layout and features of SAS Visual Analytics,
see SAS Visual Analytics: User's Guide.
To change your preference
for a report theme in the designer, open the Preferences window,
and go to the General Preferences page. Select
your default report theme. For more information about report themes,
see SAS Visual Analytics: User's Guide.
Custom report themes
are now automatically created when a coordinating custom application
theme is created in SAS Theme Designer for Flex. These custom report
themes can then be used in SAS Visual Analytics reports.
The following table
contains many of the keyboard shortcuts for the application. In the
user interface, some shortcuts are displayed within parentheses in
tooltips and menu item labels. Some are also displayed in the Keyboard
Shortcuts window (press F9 to open that window).
Keyboard Shortcuts
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Open the Keyboard
Shortcuts window.
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Note: The Keyboard
Shortcuts window might not contain all of the shortcuts
for your application.
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Open a Help pop-up window
from the Help button.
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Note: This shortcut does not work
on some keyboards (for example, the Italian keyboard).
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Maximize view (collapses
the category pane and the tile pane, and hides the status bar and
the application bar, which includes the menu bar).
Exit maximized view
(expands the category pane and the tile pane, and shows the status
bar and the application bar).
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Shift+F9 (if a menu
is available in that context)
Note: If you use Shift+F9 to display
the pop-up menu, then it is always displayed in the top left corner
of the user interface control that you are using.
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Open the Landmarks window.
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Temporarily invert or
revert application colors (for the current session only).
Note: You can set the Invert
application colors preference in the Preferences window
if you want the color change to persist across sessions.
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Make sure that the focus
is on the tab. Press F2, and specify the new name. To commit your
changes, press Enter. To cancel your changes, press Esc.
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Make sure that the focus
is on the tab, and then press Delete.
Note: Some tabs cannot be closed.
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Switch in and out of
Edit mode for a table cell.
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To enter Edit mode,
select a cell, and press F2.
To exit Edit mode, press
Esc.
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Navigate between table
headings and table content.
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For a two-dimensional
table, make sure that the focus is on the table and that you are not
in Edit mode. Press Ctrl+F8 to switch the focus between column headings
and table cells. Use the arrow keys to navigate from heading to heading.
For a multidimensional
table, make sure that the focus is on a table cell and that you are
not in Edit mode. Press Ctrl+F8 to switch the focus between column
headings, row headings, and table cells. Use the arrow keys to navigate
from heading to heading.
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Navigate the content
rows of a table.
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When table cells are in Edit mode:
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Press Tab and Shift+Tab to move from cell to cell horizontally across columns.
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Press Enter and Shift+Enter to
move from cell to cell vertically across rows.
When table cells are
not in Edit mode, use the arrow keys to move from cell to cell.
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To sort a single column,
navigate to its column heading (press Ctrl+F8). Press the spacebar
to sort the column.
To sort additional columns,
navigate to the column heading of each additional column that you
want to sort. Press Ctrl+spacebar.
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Change the width of
the current column.
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Navigate to the column
heading (press Ctrl+F8). Then press Ctrl+left arrow or Ctrl+right
arrow to change the width of the column.
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Navigate to the column
heading (press Ctrl+F8). Then press Shift+left arrow to move one column
to the left, and press Shift+right arrow to move one column to the
right.
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Automatically re-size
the current column to fit its contents.
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Navigate to the column
heading (press Ctrl+F8). Then press Enter.
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Open a drop-down list
or drop-down menu.
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Make sure that the focus
is on the control, and press Ctrl+down arrow.
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Change the month or
year in a calendar control.
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Move the focus to the
calendar control.
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To change the month, press Page
Up to go to the previous month, and press Page Down to go to the next
month.
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To change the year, press the minus
sign key to go to the previous year, and press the plus sign key to
go to the next year.
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Exit a single application
in the SAS Visual Analytics home page.
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Tab to the application’s
button at the top of the browser window, and press Delete.
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Some exceptions to accessibility
standards are documented in the following table.
Exceptions to Accessibility Standards
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Sometimes, you cannot
use the keyboard to sequentially navigate through the interface and
move the focus in a meaningful order.
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No workaround is available.
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The SAS High Contrast
theme has a few unresolved focus and contrast issues.
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For contrast issues,
select a different theme, and then press Ctrl+~ to invert the colors.
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The SAS Light theme
and SAS Dark theme might not provide sufficient color contrast for
some users.
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Use the SAS Corporate
theme or the SAS High Contrast theme.
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JAWS cannot read some
of the controls in the application, such as images, icons, and buttons.
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No workaround is available.
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JAWS cannot read the
tooltips of items in trees, lists, and menus.
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No workaround is available.
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JAWS refers to table
controls as list boxes.
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When JAWS reports that
a control is a list box, keep in mind that it might actually be a
table.
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JAWS can sometimes read
controls that are not available to users.
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No workaround is available.
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JAWS does not correctly
read the states in a tri-state check box tree if JAWS is not in Forms
mode.
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Disable the JAWS Virtual
PC cursor when you work with the check box tree. Tab to the tree,
and press Insert+Z to disable the Virtual PC cursor. When you finish
interacting with the tree, press Insert+Z to re-enable the Virtual
PC cursor.
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The keyboard shortcuts
that are used to interact with editable tables can conflict with keyboard
shortcuts for the Forms mode in JAWS.
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As a best practice,
disable the JAWS Virtual PC cursor when you work with tables. Tab
to the table, and press Insert+Z to disable the Virtual PC cursor.
When you finish interacting with the table, press Insert+Z to re-enable
the Virtual PC cursor.
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JAWS cannot read two-column
property tables.
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No workaround is available.
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JAWS does not correctly
read the information in a table:
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JAWS cannot read the column headings
of a table.
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When table cells are not editable
and the focus is on the body of the table, JAWS reads an entire row
at a time instead of cell by cell.
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When table cells are editable and
the focus is on the body of the table, JAWS reads only the first row
of the table. If you use the arrow keys to select a cell or row, then
JAWS does not read anything. If you press Enter to edit a cell, then
JAWS reads the row that contains the edited cell.
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No workaround is available.
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When a table cell is
selected and you press Home, End, Page Up, or Page Down, the focus
moves to the first displayed column, regardless of which column you
were in.
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Use the arrow keys to
navigate through the cells of the table.
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You cannot use the keyboard
to scroll to the left and the right in some tables.
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No workaround is available.
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You cannot use the keyboard
to activate the links within how-to topics and Help pop-up windows.
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Use the Help menu
to access the linked documents.
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You cannot use Shift+F10
to open a pop-up menu.
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Use Shift+F9 to open
pop-up menus that are created for the SAS application. The generic
menu that is provided by the Flash player cannot be opened by Shift+F9.
Note: If you press Shift+F10 in
Internet Explorer and no pop-up menu is available, the browser moves
the focus to the File menu for the browser
tab. To return focus to the application area of the browser window,
press Esc.
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You cannot use the keyboard
to access the close (x) button that is in the top right corner of
a tab.
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Make sure that the focus
is on the tab, and then press Delete to close the tab.
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Visual focus for the
menu bar is indicated with an outline around the entire menu bar instead
of around individual menus.
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To select individual
menus, use the left or right arrow key.
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Sometimes, you cannot
use the Tab key to move the focus to the application area of a web
browser (that is, the part of the browser window that is controlled
by the Flash player).
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The following workaround
is applicable to Internet Explorer only.
Press Ctrl+ number,
where number is the ordinal
position of the application’s tab in the set of tabs that are
open in your browser window. Then press Tab to move the focus to the
application area.
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You cannot use the Tab
key to move the focus outside of a code or expression editor. Pressing
Tab within the editor only inserts tabs.
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For Internet Explorer,
press Shift+F10, and then press Esc to move the focus outside of the
editor.
For Firefox, press Alt+Tab
to switch to another application. When you switch back, the focus
will be outside of the editor.
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If you tab to an item
that is partially or entirely off-screen, the item is not automatically
scrolled back into view.
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Sometimes, you can use
the arrow keys or the Tab key to scroll the item back into view.
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When you use the Ctrl+plus
sign keyboard shortcut to zoom in, some portions of the interface
can become hidden from view.
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Use the keyboard to
access the hidden parts of the interface.
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The Ctrl+plus sign and
Ctrl+minus sign keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out do not work
on some menus unless the menus are first opened.
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Open the menu before
you use the keyboard shortcut.
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The Ctrl+plus sign and
Ctrl+minus sign keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out do not work
on all elements in the application window (for example, tooltips and
button labels).
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No workaround is available.
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You cannot use the keyboard
to navigate in the Layout section because
it is a Read-Only interface that is used for the visual verification
of the elements that have been created.
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Use the test button
that is in the Layout section to preview
your elements in a secondary window. The items that are displayed
in the secondary window are identical to the items that are displayed
in the Layout section, but unlike the items
in the Read-Only Layout section, you can
interact with the items in the secondary window.
Note: After the application opens
the secondary window, press Tab to move the focus to the window.
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You cannot use the keyboard
to access the color blocks in the Recently used section
of the color selection control.
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No workaround is available.
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JAWS does not explain
how to operate a drop-down list and drop-down menu.
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JAWS refers to these
controls as either "button", "button menu", or
"combo box". In addition to using Ctrl+down arrow to open
these drop-down lists and menus, you can also activate buttons and
some button menus by pressing spacebar. Pressing spacebar either opens
the control or selects the default item.
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When JAWS reads the
control names in a breadcrumb, it does not distinguish between the
breadcrumb buttons that contain drop-down menus and those that do
not.
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Check for a drop-down
menu by pressing Ctrl+down arrow on a breadcrumb button. A drop-down
menu opens if one exists for that button.
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When you use the down
arrow to scroll through the items in a "combo box," any
item that opens a secondary window will do so when you scroll down
to it. This prevents you from navigating to items that are farther
down in the drop-down list.
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Press Ctrl+down arrow
to scroll through the items in the drop-down list, and then press
Enter or Tab to make a selection.
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JAWS cannot read the
contents of a tree table (that is, a table that contains a tree) unless
the table is in Edit mode.
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Make sure that the focus
is in the tree table, and press F2 to enter Edit mode.
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JAWS cannot read the
content selection tree.
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No workaround is available.
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After you edit or delete
a comment, the focus does not return to the comment.
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Use the Tab key to return
the focus to the comment.
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JAWS incorrectly states
that you should use Ctrl+Tab to switch tabs.
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To switch from one tab
to the next, press the left or right arrow key and then press Enter
or spacebar.
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When JAWS is running,
pressing the up and down arrow in a number selector causes your browser
to crash.
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Enter the number instead
of using the arrow keys to select it.
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JAWS does not read the
applications that are listed in the drop-down list of the home button.
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No workaround is available.
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You cannot determine
which cell in a table row has the focus unless the cell is in Edit
mode.
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No workaround is available.
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When you open a new
application from the Home button in the application bar, the focus
is lost. This might also happen when you press the spacebar while
any button in the application bar is in focus.
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Press Tab and the focus
should return to either the Home button or another button in the application
bar.
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When JAWS is running,
some drop-down menus do not work correctly with the keyboard.
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Changing the JAWS cursor
mode (press Insert+Z) can sometimes help.
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In some charts, graphs,
and diagrams, color is the only means for conveying certain types
of information.
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You can use SAS Theme
Designer for Flex to create custom colors that are easier for low-vision
and color-blind users to discern.
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You cannot use the keyboard
to move the focus to the buttons that are used for changing the month
and year in the calendar control.
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Move the focus to the
calendar control.
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To change the month, press Page
Up to go to the previous month, and press Page Down to go to the next
month.
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To change the year, press the minus
sign key to go to the previous year, and press the plus sign key to
go to the next year.
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Using the Alt Gr key
in certain key combinations sometimes causes an action instead of
displaying a character. For example, if you use the Alt Gr key with
the plus sign (+) key, the grave (`) key, or the question mark (?)
key on some keyboards, you zoom in, invert colors, and open Help (respectively)
instead of displaying the expected character.
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Use the Character Map
feature in Microsoft Windows to copy the character that you need.
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