Website Lets You Copy and Paste Special Characters - Neatorama

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

Now that really is neat!

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

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

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

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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. =]

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?????

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

(if this font can reproduce it)

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

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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

:)

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

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

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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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

which has a MUCH more complete list.

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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

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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!

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« » ‹ › ‘ ’ “ ” „ ‚ £ ¥ € ¬ ¶ @ § ® © ™ ° × ? ± ? ‰ ? ? ? 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.

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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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