Gerald Fitton
You will find a copy of this application on your PipeDream master disc or, if you have RISC OS 3, in the Apps directory.
If you double click on !Chars, it doesn't load onto the iconbar but a window will pop up containing the full 256 ASCII character set. This utility can be used to enter top bit set characters into your document. You use it by moving the pointer within the !Chars window and then clicking <select> on the character you want to appear in your document. When you click on a character in !Chars, that character will appear at the cursor as if it had been entered at the keyboard.
Alternatively, you can hold the pointer over a character and press <shift>. This executes that character in the same way as clicking on it. The trouble with this is that if you leave the pointer within the !Chars window, then whenever you press <shift>, extra characters will mysteriously be added into your text!
If you don't have !Chars maybe you have Beebug's CharSel or the PD program ImpChars, both of which are better than !Chars.