kcharselect software package provides special character utility, you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install kcharselect
kcharselect is installed in your system.
Make ensure the kcharselect package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep kcharselect *
You will get with kcharselect package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 8 jessie |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | kcharselect |
| Version | 4:4.14.0-1 |
| Description | special character utility |
| Sub Section | utils |