Unicode keyboard shortcuts

From time to time some of you might want to be able to use some special characters in your posts to clarify your writings. I made a limited JPEG of some commonly used ones for use on Windows machines. There's a completely different set of commands for similar characters on a Mac, so this pic is only for PCs:


To use these characters you would press and hold the "alt" key while pressing the listed number keys in the correct order and then releasing the "alt" key.

Hope someone finds this useful,
Matt

For the Mac users:


Link to spreadsheet on Google Docs: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pmRe60cjcoN0fXyNpkJRvKQ

I would like thank you for posting this up. I have often been annoyed that I didn't know how to enter the temperature degree symbol (°) and now I do as well as other special characters. :rockin:

Note that the numbers have to be pressed on the 10-keypad, not the top row above the letters.

Anybody have the MS one in a printable format? I can't seem to cut and paste the one in the OP

fretman124 said:

Anybody have the MS one in a printable format? I can't seem to cut and paste the one in the OP

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I made it a JPG so you can just right click and save picture.

EvilTOJ said:

Note that the numbers have to be pressed on the 10-keypad, not the top row above the letters.

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Yeah, I found that out the hard way. I tried the top row and it didn't work, so instinctively I tried the keypad with number lock turned on and low and behold I had special characters.

in windows- run(charmap)....

†hÄñkŠ ...567

ﺸﺼﻂﺺﻃﻡ

Arabic for ?????? something

Shweet! I hate having to look on line that that list!

ümlaut, baby!

scinerd3000 said:

in windows- run(charmap)....

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where is this app at? I want to add it to my quickstart bar.

Jaysus said:

where is this app at? I want to add it to my quickstart bar.

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run command and type charmap. it located in c:\windows\system32\charmap

Or instead of digging through system files to find it, just go to Start > Run > and type in charmap.

scinerd3000 said:

c:\windows\system32\charmap

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that's what I was after - thanks!!