Website Lets You Copy and Paste Special Characters

1. Evil Pundit
   September 6th, 2008 at 1:01 am

   Now that really is neat!

2. leigh2
   September 6th, 2008 at 1:25 am

   Uh, isn't that what character map is for?

3. PJ
   September 6th, 2008 at 5:47 am

   I suppose this just goes to show how unfamiliar people are with their computers. :-/

4. eberean
   September 6th, 2008 at 8:26 am

   win users: start - run - charmap, also show the alt-xxxx keyboard combo. been using it since win3.11

5. Mossel
   September 6th, 2008 at 8:46 am

   I wonder were the guys that build that site copy/pasted their special characters from. As they obviously never heard of charmap themselves...

   I would love to see their faces when someone points it out. =]

6. Mossel
   September 6th, 2008 at 8:51 am

   ?????

   Found out I can type my name in arabic once...
   gotta love charmap

   (if this font can reproduce it)

7. Mossel
   September 6th, 2008 at 8:53 am

   ah, booh. It can't.
   It did with the font in the submit-box... oh well...
   Another two comments.. -wasted-

8. Angstrom
   September 6th, 2008 at 9:49 am

   charmap is fun, plus it has a lot of useful and reasonably common characters that don't even appear on the linked site, EG:
   Ç
   ?
   ÷

   ?snq? ????????? p???? ?o? ??????uo? u?op ?p?sdn sno??? ??? s???q ?u???ou ?u??? I

   

9. Angstrom
   September 6th, 2008 at 9:50 am

   damn, the unicode upside down converter doesn't work here.

10. dooflotchie
    September 6th, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Jeez...and I thought it was dorky of me to pin the character map shortcut to my start menu!

11. andrew
    September 6th, 2008 at 10:53 am

    there's also some great ways to do this in OSX. The most convenient is with this dashboard widget that has a lot more than this site: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/symbolcaddy.html

12. Guibuu
    September 6th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    http://www.notengoenie.com/
    Specially for the Spanish language.
    ñ Ñ á é í ó ú Á É Í Ó Ú ü Ü ¡ ¿ ...

13. jmp478
    September 6th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    @ Angstrom
    Not all of those symbols can be seen by everyone.
    A lot of them just look like question marks.

14. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    September 6th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    Doesn't look like a very complete set to me. They're missing a lot of accented letters; you couldn't even use this to type French.

15. Barbwire
    September 6th, 2008 at 10:54 pm

    You can also use the alt + number keys to type characters in other languages, scientific notation, and even hearts and flowers. It doesn't work with every font. ë alt137, é alt 130, ¡ alt 173. Play around with it.

16. renderanything
    September 7th, 2008 at 1:14 am

    I know about the alt option, and I use character map frequently, but if there were something that made it easier for me to write in Português I would be all over it. This website would probably be popular in operating systems without other options.

17. Joy
    September 7th, 2008 at 11:43 am

    Lame. Ted Montgomery's Special ALT Characters page is far, far better.

    http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc-a.html

18. Cat
    September 7th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    I prefer this site:
    http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

    which has a MUCH more complete list.

19. Thomas
    September 7th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    glad there's a way for even more people to use things that 99% of posters use for nothing but emoticons. this will elevate the dialogue. ò_ó

20. Ali S.
    September 8th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Very useful. I can't for the life of me remember which button to hold, press, chant a mantra, or wave a chicken over my head to get some symbols!

21. Pol x
    September 10th, 2008 at 11:30 am

    « » ‹ › ‘ ’ “ ” „ ‚ £ ¥ € ¬ ¶ @ § ® © ™ ° × ? ± ? ‰ ? ? ? ¹ ² ³ ½ ¼ ¾ - – — ? \ { } † ‡ … • ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ¿ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Å å Ä ä Ö ö Ø ø Æ æ Ü ü ß é

    Blimey... I never knew about any of this.

22. Ivan Orozco
    November 4th, 2008 at 11:02 am

    Hey mates...
    I need to find a solution for my web caster wheels page... im looking for characters who works with alt+number like ½, ¼, ¾... but also i need to find another characters like 5/16, 3/8, 5/8, 7/16, 7/8 of the little way...
    if somebody knows about those characters, please send my some answer to my e-mail dir...
    Thnks a lot..
    Ivan.

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