Comments on: Website Lets You Copy and Paste Special Characters

By: Ivan Orozco

Ivan Orozco — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:02:37 +0000

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.

By: Pol x

Pol x — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:30:07 +0000

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

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:49:24 +0000

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!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:07:56 +0000

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

By: Cat

Cat — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:04:26 +0000

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

which has a MUCH more complete list.

By: Joy

Joy — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:43:42 +0000

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

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

By: renderanything

renderanything — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:14:00 +0000

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.

By: Barbwire

Barbwire — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:54:48 +0000

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.

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:54:48 +0000

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.

By: jmp478

jmp478 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:45:26 +0000

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

By: Guibuu

Guibuu — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:11:35 +0000

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

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:53:42 +0000

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

By: dooflotchie

dooflotchie — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:24:55 +0000

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

By: Angstrom

Angstrom — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:50:08 +0000

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

By: Angstrom

Angstrom — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:49:11 +0000

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

By: Mossel

Mossel — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:53:55 +0000

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

By: Mossel

Mossel — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:51:13 +0000

?????

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

(if this font can reproduce it)

By: Mossel

Mossel — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:46:55 +0000

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. =]

By: eberean

eberean — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:26:02 +0000

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

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:47:45 +0000

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

By: leigh2

leigh2 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:25:20 +0000

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

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:01:31 +0000

Now that really is neat!