Ever had to hunt around for the keyboard combination for special characters like ½, ± or ©? Well, you won’t have to with this nifty website.
Here’s CopyPasteCharacter by Konst & Teknik and Martin Ström (hey, I used it just now to type his last name!): Link – via Quipsologies
Evil Pundit
Now that really is neat!
leigh2
Uh, isn't that what character map is for?
PJ
I suppose this just goes to show how unfamiliar people are with their computers. :-/
eberean
win users: start - run - charmap, also show the alt-xxxx keyboard combo. been using it since win3.11
Mossel
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. =]
Mossel
?????
Found out I can type my name in arabic once...
gotta love charmap
(if this font can reproduce it)
Mossel
ah, booh. It can't.
It did with the font in the submit-box... oh well...
Another two comments.. -wasted-
Angstrom
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
Angstrom
damn, the unicode upside down converter doesn't work here. 
dooflotchie
Jeez...and I thought it was dorky of me to pin the character map shortcut to my start menu! 
andrew
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
Guibuu
http://www.notengoenie.com/
Specially for the Spanish language.
ñ Ñ á é í ó ú Á É Í Ó Ú ü Ü ¡ ¿ ...
jmp478
@ Angstrom
Not all of those symbols can be seen by everyone.
A lot of them just look like question marks.
Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
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.
Barbwire
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.
renderanything
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.
Joy
Lame. Ted Montgomery's Special ALT Characters page is far, far better.
Cat
I prefer this site:
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
which has a MUCH more complete list.
Thomas
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
Ali S.
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!
Pol x
« » ‹ › ‘ ’ “ ” „ ‚ £ ¥ € ¬ ¶ @ § ® © ™ ° × ? ± ? ‰ ? ? ? 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.
Ivan Orozco
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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