Music Cataloging at Yale ♪ Orbis and OCLC
Note: this page was created with music cataloging in mind.
These are the keys to which diacritics and special characters encountered in music cataloging at Yale are mapped for Orbis (Voyager). Not all diacritics are included, namely those for languages in which we do not catalog. For a complete list, see Diacritics and special characters from Cataloging at Yale
See also Diacritics and special characters by language
acute | AE (Æ) | alif | angstrom | breve | cedilla | circumflex | eth (Ð) | dot above | dot in middle | dot below | double acute | grave | hacek | high comma, off center | hook, left | hook, right | ligature | macron | miagkii znak | slash O (Ø) | OE (Œ) | Polish L (Ł) | tilde | tverdii znak | umlaut
| Diacritic/Special character | ORBIS Keys | Languages |
| acute | ctrl alt o or keypad 8 | Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish |
| Æ upper case æ lower case |
ctrl alt q ctrl alt shift q |
Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian |
| alif | ctrl alt f or keypad 2 | Korean, Japanese, Turkish |
| angstrom | ctrl alt shift / or alt keypad 3 | Czech, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Slovak, Swedish |
| breve | ctrl alt shift . [period] or alt shift keypad 9 | Bulgarian, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Belarusian |
| cedilla | ctrl alt h or keypad 6 | Albanian, Catalan, French, Latvian, Portuguese, Turkish |
| circle above see angstrom |
ctrl alt shift / or alt keypad 3 | |
| circumflex | ctrl alt shift p or keypad 6 | Albanian, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Sinhalese, Slovene, Turkish |
| Ð (eth) upper case ð lower case |
win alt w ctrl alt w |
Croatian, Icelandic, Serbian |
| dot above | ctrl alt shift n or alt keypad 1 | Hebrew, Lithuanian, Polish, , Russian, Turkish, Belarusian |
| dot in middle | ctrl alt shift b or left parenthesis [ | Catalan |
| dot below | ctrl alt n or keypad 1 | Hebrew |
| double acute | ctrl alt shift o or alt keypad 8 | Hungarian |
| grave | ctrl alt ` or keypad 2 | Catalan, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese |
| hacek | ctrl alt p or alt keypad 4 | Armenian, Croatian, Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene |
| high comma, off center | ctrl alt shift : | Armenian, Czech, Georgian, Latvian, Macedonian, Slovak |
| hook, left | ctrl alt shift h | Latvian, Romanian |
| hook, right | ctrl alt shift j | Lithuanian, Polish |
| ligature first half ligature second half |
ctrl alt shift k or keypad 0 ctrl alt shift l or alt keypad 0 |
Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian |
| macron | ctrl alt shift , [comma] or keypad 9 | Armenian, Greek (Modern), Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, |
| miagkii znak | ctrl alt g | Bulgarian, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian |
| musical flat | ctrl alt x | |
| musical sharp | ||
| Ø (slash O) upper case ø lower case |
win alt y ctrl alt y |
Danish, Norwegian |
| OE upper case oe lower case |
ctrl alt shift r ctrl alt r |
French, Icelandic |
| Polish L upper case Polish l lower case |
ctrl alt shift e ctrl alt e |
Polish |
| superior dot (dot above) see dot above |
ctrl alt shift n or alt keypad 1 | |
| tilde | ctrl alt \ or keypad 5 | Estonian, Portuguese, Spanish |
| tverdii znak | ctrl alt shift g | Bulgarian, Russian |
| umlaut | ctrl alt shift m or keypad 7 | Albanian, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian |