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I want to type special characters such as □ and ■. The problem is, these aren't on my keyboard. What do I do to type them?

It is understood to press Ctrl + Shift + U, but isn't done to press 25a1 after. I used my left hand to press Ctrl + Shift and right hand to press U. I can't proceed further.

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You need the unicode hex values for these as they aren't part of the standard Compose Key lineup. To work out what the keys were, I copied and pasted the characters off your question and stuck them in this converter. There are many others like it. It gave me the following:

U+25A1 : WHITE SQUARE
U+25A0 : BLACK SQUARE

To enter these, you follow the standard Unicode entry sequence:

Control + Shift + U, unicode hex (in lower case), Return

□
■

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