How to enter special characters (Norwegain letter "ø") in an OSM editor?

In my neighbourhood someone has created an island using coastline and naming the island using place=island and name=eldoya. The correct name is eldøya (with the Norwegain letter "ø"). How can I correct this in P2?

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aseerel4c26 ♦
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It may be useful to look at the data here (to better understand your problem). Could you please provide a link to the location?

(18 Mar '14, 15:29) aseerel4c26 ♦

Ah (inspired by Hendrik's answer), is your problem just entering the ø character? I.e. would changing the name to something else ("example" for example) not be a problem?

(18 Mar '14, 16:04) aseerel4c26 ♦

Okay, judging from your comment below THIS seems to be your problem.

(19 Mar '14, 13:05) aseerel4c26 ♦

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Hi, use a text editor (on your computer), for instance Word, and make the name correctly by adding figures: Løland. Copy and paste the result into the advanced menu directly and the islands name is spelled correctly in OSM.

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aseerel4c26 ♦
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Thanks, that did the trick! And I learned that there is an advanced menu.

(19 Mar '14, 07:54) Honning

This question is not really related to Potlatch2. The only issue is that Potlatch2 does not help you with special characters itself (which is really not wrong). As far as I know the other OSM editors also do not offer a help themselves with this.

There is the method described by Hendrik: use a "special character insert" tool/table from another program and copy & paste then.
You can use whatever your operating system supplies — special character tables.
You also could copy the character from a website like Wikipedia (article about "o").
But you may also just press the correct keys on your keyboard (which and if possible depends on your keyboard mapping).

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answered 19 Mar '14, 13:10

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edited 19 Mar '14, 13:13

Well - it might be - P2 uses Flash, and I have a vague recollection there have been questions asked before about that.

(19 Mar '14, 14:48) SomeoneElse ♦

@SomeoneElse: hmm, okay, right. E.g. a browser(addon)-based special character insertion would not be possible. But does someone use such a method? I just tried it: entering via compose key (compose / o) is working normally. Also my German Umlauts (öäü) work via the normal keys.

(19 Mar '14, 15:09) aseerel4c26 ♦

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