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    Posted: April 21 2005 at 18:44

I've noticed that alot of you use special characters (ie, the "e" with an accent, the icelandic "p" thing, etc.) in your posts. How do you get them form a standered keyboard? I know you can get some (upside-down question mark) by alt 168 i believe. Is there a site where i can find this information?

Thank you for your help.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 07:04
You could always do it the LONG way: Insert Symbol in MS Word, copy and paste...depends how much you want them I guess! Aside from that, I personally don't know sorry.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 07:41

There's more than one way to skin a cat:

METHOD A (Win XP):

start | Control Panel | Regional and language options

Click on Languages tab

Click on Details button

Click on Add button under Installed Services to add a keyboard

Language code (two chars) will be displayed in System Notification Area. To change mapping either click on it or press ALT+Shift to toggle through languages.

If you have a US keyboard on your PC then you'll need to learn the key presses (e.g. on a UK keyboard the key next to the P is [ (and { shifted). If you select, say, PT (Portuguese) and then press the [ key followed by the E key you get é on the screen. With, say, PT selected, if you press the ; key you get ç on the screen. Of course, if you buy a foreign keyboard and plug it into your PC then you don't have to remember the mapping 'cause the characters and accents are printed on the keys.

METHOD B (Win XP):

start | All Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Character Map

Select the character you want, click Select button and Copy button, and then paste into your document, window, etc.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 09:09

Well, our keyboards have the symbols used in our language: I don't need to do anything special to type our Spanish ñ letter (only to hit the ñ key).

There is another method:

1- Hold down the Alt key (and keep it down)

2- Using the numeric keys on the right of the keyboard (not the ones on the top row) dial a three digit code (try 164, for example)

3- Release the Alt key and... voilà

There was a way to get a list of the symbols assigned to each code, but I don't remember it...

 

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PC Special Character Entry

Latin-1 Supplement

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

 

Non-breaking space

0160

 

¡

Inverted exclamation mark

173 or 0161

Alt+Ctrl+!

¢

Cent sign

189 or 0162

Ctrl+/,C

£

Pound sign

156 or 0163

Shift+3

¤

Currency sign

15 or 0164

 

¥

Yen sign

157 or 0165

 

¦

Broken bar

179 or 0166

Alt+Ctrl+`

§

Section sign

21 or 0167

 

¨

Diæresis

249 or 0168

Ctrl+:,Space

©

Copyright sign

184 or 0169

Alt+Ctrl+C

ª

Feminine ordinal indicator

166 or 0170

 

«

Left-pointing double angle quotation mark

174 or 0171

Ctrl+`,<

¬

Not sign

170 or 0172

Shift+`

Soft hyphen

240 or 0173

 

®

Registered sign

169 or 0174

Alt+Ctrl+R

¯

Macron

238 or 0175

 

°

Degree sign

248 or 0176

Ctrl+@,Space

±

Plus-minus sign

241 or 0177

 

²

Superscript two

253 or 0178

 

³

Superscript three

252 or 0179

 

´

Acute accent

239 or 0180

Ctrl+',Space

µ

Micro sign

230 or 0181

 

Pilcrow sign

20 or 0182

 

·

Middle dot

250 or 0183

 

¸

Cedilla

247 or 0184

Ctrl+,,Space

¹

Superscript one

251 or 0185

 

º

Masculine ordinal indicator

167 or 0186

 

»

Right-pointing double angle quotation mark

175 or 0187

Ctrl+`,>

¼

Vulgar fraction one quarter

172 or 0188

 

½

Vulgar fraction one half

171 or 0189

 

¾

Vulgar fraction three quarters

243 or 0190

 

¿

Inverted question mark

168 or 0191

Alt+Ctrl+?

À

Uppercase A with grave accent

183 or 0192

Ctrl+`,Shift+A

Á

Uppercase A with acute accent

181 or 0193

Ctrl+',Shift+A

Â

Uppercase A with circumflex accent

182 or 0194

Ctrl+^,Shift+A

Ã

Uppercase A with tilde

199 or 0195

Ctrl+~,Shift+A

Ä

Uppercase A with diæresis

142 or 0196

Ctrl+:,Shift+A

Å

Uppercase A with ring above

143 or 0197

Ctrl+@,Shift+A

Æ

Uppercase ligature AE

146 or 0198

Ctrl+&,Shift+A

Ç

Uppercase C with cedilla

128 or 0199

Ctrl+,,Shift+C

È

Uppercase E with grave accent

212 or 0200

Ctrl+`,Shift+E

É

Uppercase E with acute accent

144 or 0201

Ctrl+',Shift+E

Latin-1 Supplement (continued)

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

Ê

Uppercase E with circumflex accent

210 or 0202

Ctrl+^,Shift+E

Ë

Uppercase E with diæresis

211 or 0203

Ctrl+:,Shift+E

Ì

Uppercase I with grave accent

222 or 0204

Ctrl+`,Shift+I

Í

Uppercase I with acute accent

214 or 0205

Ctrl+',Shift+I

Î

Uppercase I with circumflex accent

215 or 0206

Ctrl+^,Shift+I

Ï

Uppercase I with diæresis

216 or 0207

Ctrl+:,Shift+I

Ð

Uppercase eth

209 or 0208

Ctrl+',Shift+D

Ñ

Uppercase N with tilde

165 or 0209

Ctrl+~,Shift+N

Ò

Uppercase O with grave accent

227 or 0210

Ctrl+`,Shift+O

Ó

Uppercase O with acute accent

224 or 0211

Ctrl+',Shift+O

Ô

Uppercase O with circumflex accent

226 or 0212

Ctrl+^,Shift+O

Õ

Uppercase O with tilde

229 or 0213

Ctrl+~,Shift+O

Ö

Uppercase O with diæresis

216 or 0214

Ctrl+:,Shift+O

×

Multiplication sign

158 or 0215

 

Ø

Uppercase O with stroke

157 or 0216

Ctrl+/,Shift+O

Ù

Uppercase U with grave accent

235 or 0217

Ctrl+`,Shift+U

Ú

Uppercase U with acute accent

233 or 0218

Ctrl+',Shift+U

Û

Uppercase U with circumflex accent

234 or 0219

Ctrl+^,Shift+U

Ü

Uppercase U with diæresis

154 or 0220

Ctrl+:,Shift+U

Ý

Uppercase Y with acute accent

237 or 0221

Ctrl+',Shift+Y

Þ

Uppercase thorn

232 or 0222

 

ß

Lowercase sharp S

225 or 0223

Ctrl+&,S

à

Lowercase A with grave accent

133 or 0224

Ctrl+`,A

á

Lowercase A with acute accent

160 or 0225

Ctrl+',A

â

Lowercase A with circumflex accent

131 or 0226

Ctrl+^,A

ã

Lowercase A with tilde

198 or 0227

Ctrl+~,A

ä

Lowercase A with diæresis

132 or 0228

Ctrl+:,A

å

Lowercase A with ring above

134 or 0229

Ctrl+@,A

æ

Lowercase ligature AE

145 or 0230

Ctrl+&,A

ç

Lowercase C with cedilla

135 or 0231

Ctrl+,,C

è

Lowercase E with grave accent

138 or 0232

Ctrl+`,E

é

Lowercase E with acute accent

130 or 0233

Ctrl+',E

ê

Lowercase E with circumflex accent

136 or 0234

Ctrl+^,E

ë

Lowercase E with diæresis

137 or 0235

Ctrl+:,E

ì

Lowercase I with grave accent

141 or 0236

Ctrl+`,I

í

Lowercase I with acute accent

161 or 0237

Ctrl+',I

î

Lowercase I with circumflex accent

140 or 0238

Ctrl+^,I

ï

Lowercase I with diæresis

139 or 0239

Ctrl+:,I

ð

Lowercase eth

208 or 0240

Ctrl+',D

ñ

Lowercase N with tilde

164 or 0241

Ctrl+~,N

ò

Lowercase O with grave accent

149 or 0242

Ctrl+`,O

ó

Lowercase O with acute accent

162 or 0243

Ctrl+',O

ô

Lowercase O with circumflex accent

147 or 0244

Ctrl+^,O

õ

Lowercase O with tilde

228 or 0245

Ctrl+~,O

ö

Lowercase O with diæresis

148 or 0246

Ctrl+:,O

÷

Division sign

246 or 0247

 

Latin-1 Supplement (continued)

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

ø

Lowercase O with stroke

155 or 0248

Ctrl+/,O

ù

Lowercase U with grave accent

151 or 0249

Ctrl+`,U

ú

Lowercase U with acute accent

163 or 0250

Ctrl+',U

û

Lowercase U with circumflex accent

150 or 0251

Ctrl+^,U

ü

Lowercase U with diæresis

129 or 0252

Ctrl+:,U

ý

Lowercase Y with acute accent

236 or 0253

Ctrl+',Y

þ

Lowercase thorn

231 or 0254

 

ÿ

Lowercase Y with diæresis

152 or 0255

Ctrl+:,Y

Latin Extended-A

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

Œ

Uppercase ligature OE

0140

Ctrl+&,Shift+O

œ

Lowercase ligature OE

0156

Ctrl+&,O

Š

Uppercase S with caron

0138

Alt+Ctrl+^,Shift+S

š

Lowercase S with caron

0154

Alt+Ctrl+^,S

Ÿ

Uppercase Y with diæresis

0159

Ctrl+:,Shift+Y

Ž

Uppercase Z with caron

0142

 

ž

Lowercase Z with caron

0158

 

Latin Extended-B

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

ƒ

Lowercase F with hook

222 or 0131

 

Spacing Modifier Letters

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

ˆ

Modifier letter circumflex accent

0136

 

˜

Small tilde

0152

 

General Punctuation

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

En dash

0150

Ctrl+Num -

Em dash

0151

Alt+Ctrl+Num -

Left single quotation mark

0145

Ctrl+`,`

Right single quotation mark

0146

Ctrl+','

Single low-9 quotation mark

0130

 

"

Left double quotation mark

0147

Ctrl+`,"

"

Right double quotation mark

0148

Ctrl+',"

Double low-9 quotation mark

0132

Dagger

0134

 

Double dagger

0135

 

Bullet

0149

 

 

General Punctuation (continued)

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

Ellipsis

0133

Alt+Ctrl+.

Per mille sign

0137

 

Single left-pointing angle quotation mark

0139

 

Single right-pointing angle quotation mark

0155

 

Currency symbols

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

Euro sign

0128

Alt+Ctrl+4

Letterlike symbols

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

Trademark sign

0153

Alt+Ctrl+T

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Wow i never you could do any of that,

i guess it is true you learn something new everyday!

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Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

PC Special Character Entry

Latin-1 Supplement

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

 

Non-breaking space

0160

 

¡

Inverted exclamation mark

173 or 0161

Alt+Ctrl+!

¢

Cent sign

189 or 0162

Ctrl+/,C

£

Pound sign

156 or 0163

Shift+3

¤

Currency sign

15 or 0164

 

¥

Yen sign

157 or 0165

 

¦

Broken bar

179 or 0166

Alt+Ctrl+`

§

Section sign

21 or 0167

 

¨

Diæresis

249 or 0168

Ctrl+:,Space

©

Copyright sign

184 or 0169

Alt+Ctrl+C

ª

Feminine ordinal indicator

166 or 0170

 

«

Left-pointing double angle quotation mark

174 or 0171

Ctrl+`,<

¬

Not sign

170 or 0172

Shift+`

Soft hyphen

240 or 0173

 

®

Registered sign

169 or 0174

Alt+Ctrl+R

¯

Macron

238 or 0175

 

°

Degree sign

248 or 0176

Ctrl+@,Space

±

Plus-minus sign

241 or 0177

 

²

Superscript two

253 or 0178

 

³

Superscript three

252 or 0179

 

´

Acute accent

239 or 0180

Ctrl+',Space

µ

Micro sign

230 or 0181

 

Pilcrow sign

20 or 0182

 

·

Middle dot

250 or 0183

 

¸

Cedilla

247 or 0184

Ctrl+,,Space

¹

Superscript one

251 or 0185

 

º

Masculine ordinal indicator

167 or 0186

 

»

Right-pointing double angle quotation mark

175 or 0187

Ctrl+`,>

¼

Vulgar fraction one quarter

172 or 0188

 

½

Vulgar fraction one half

171 or 0189

 

¾

Vulgar fraction three quarters

243 or 0190

 

¿

Inverted question mark

168 or 0191

Alt+Ctrl+?

À

Uppercase A with grave accent

183 or 0192

Ctrl+`,Shift+A

Á

Uppercase A with acute accent

181 or 0193

Ctrl+',Shift+A

Â

Uppercase A with circumflex accent

182 or 0194

Ctrl+^,Shift+A

Ã

Uppercase A with tilde

199 or 0195

Ctrl+~,Shift+A

Ä

Uppercase A with diæresis

142 or 0196

Ctrl+:,Shift+A

Å

Uppercase A with ring above

143 or 0197

Ctrl+@,Shift+A

Æ

Uppercase ligature AE

146 or 0198

Ctrl+&,Shift+A

Ç

Uppercase C with cedilla

128 or 0199

Ctrl+,,Shift+C

È

Uppercase E with grave accent

212 or 0200

Ctrl+`,Shift+E

É

Uppercase E with acute accent

144 or 0201

Ctrl+',Shift+E

Latin-1 Supplement (continued)

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

Ê

Uppercase E with circumflex accent

210 or 0202

Ctrl+^,Shift+E

Ë

Uppercase E with diæresis

211 or 0203

Ctrl+:,Shift+E

Ì

Uppercase I with grave accent

222 or 0204

Ctrl+`,Shift+I

Í

Uppercase I with acute accent

214 or 0205

Ctrl+',Shift+I

Î

Uppercase I with circumflex accent

215 or 0206

Ctrl+^,Shift+I

Ï

Uppercase I with diæresis

216 or 0207

Ctrl+:,Shift+I

Ð

Uppercase eth

209 or 0208

Ctrl+',Shift+D

Ñ

Uppercase N with tilde

165 or 0209

Ctrl+~,Shift+N

Ò

Uppercase O with grave accent

227 or 0210

Ctrl+`,Shift+O

Ó

Uppercase O with acute accent

224 or 0211

Ctrl+',Shift+O

Ô

Uppercase O with circumflex accent

226 or 0212

Ctrl+^,Shift+O

Õ

Uppercase O with tilde

229 or 0213

Ctrl+~,Shift+O

Ö

Uppercase O with diæresis

216 or 0214

Ctrl+:,Shift+O

×

Multiplication sign

158 or 0215

 

Ø

Uppercase O with stroke

157 or 0216

Ctrl+/,Shift+O

Ù

Uppercase U with grave accent

235 or 0217

Ctrl+`,Shift+U

Ú

Uppercase U with acute accent

233 or 0218

Ctrl+',Shift+U

Û

Uppercase U with circumflex accent

234 or 0219

Ctrl+^,Shift+U

Ü

Uppercase U with diæresis

154 or 0220

Ctrl+:,Shift+U

Ý

Uppercase Y with acute accent

237 or 0221

Ctrl+',Shift+Y

Þ

Uppercase thorn

232 or 0222

 

ß

Lowercase sharp S

225 or 0223

Ctrl+&,S

à

Lowercase A with grave accent

133 or 0224

Ctrl+`,A

á

Lowercase A with acute accent

160 or 0225

Ctrl+',A

â

Lowercase A with circumflex accent

131 or 0226

Ctrl+^,A

ã

Lowercase A with tilde

198 or 0227

Ctrl+~,A

ä

Lowercase A with diæresis

132 or 0228

Ctrl+:,A

å

Lowercase A with ring above

134 or 0229

Ctrl+@,A

æ

Lowercase ligature AE

145 or 0230

Ctrl+&,A

ç

Lowercase C with cedilla

135 or 0231

Ctrl+,,C

è

Lowercase E with grave accent

138 or 0232

Ctrl+`,E

é

Lowercase E with acute accent

130 or 0233

Ctrl+',E

ê

Lowercase E with circumflex accent

136 or 0234

Ctrl+^,E

ë

Lowercase E with diæresis

137 or 0235

Ctrl+:,E

ì

Lowercase I with grave accent

141 or 0236

Ctrl+`,I

í

Lowercase I with acute accent

161 or 0237

Ctrl+',I

î

Lowercase I with circumflex accent

140 or 0238

Ctrl+^,I

ï

Lowercase I with diæresis

139 or 0239

Ctrl+:,I

ð

Lowercase eth

208 or 0240

Ctrl+',D

ñ

Lowercase N with tilde

164 or 0241

Ctrl+~,N

ò

Lowercase O with grave accent

149 or 0242

Ctrl+`,O

ó

Lowercase O with acute accent

162 or 0243

Ctrl+',O

ô

Lowercase O with circumflex accent

147 or 0244

Ctrl+^,O

õ

Lowercase O with tilde

228 or 0245

Ctrl+~,O

ö

Lowercase O with diæresis

148 or 0246

Ctrl+:,O

÷

Division sign

246 or 0247

 

Latin-1 Supplement (continued)

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

ø

Lowercase O with stroke

155 or 0248

Ctrl+/,O

ù

Lowercase U with grave accent

151 or 0249

Ctrl+`,U

ú

Lowercase U with acute accent

163 or 0250

Ctrl+',U

û

Lowercase U with circumflex accent

150 or 0251

Ctrl+^,U

ü

Lowercase U with diæresis

129 or 0252

Ctrl+:,U

ý

Lowercase Y with acute accent

236 or 0253

Ctrl+',Y

þ

Lowercase thorn

231 or 0254

 

ÿ

Lowercase Y with diæresis

152 or 0255

Ctrl+:,Y

Latin Extended-A

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

Œ

Uppercase ligature OE

0140

Ctrl+&,Shift+O

œ

Lowercase ligature OE

0156

Ctrl+&,O

Š

Uppercase S with caron

0138

Alt+Ctrl+^,Shift+S

š

Lowercase S with caron

0154

Alt+Ctrl+^,S

Ÿ

Uppercase Y with diæresis

0159

Ctrl+:,Shift+Y

Ž

Uppercase Z with caron

0142

 

ž

Lowercase Z with caron

0158

 

Latin Extended-B

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

ƒ

Lowercase F with hook

222 or 0131

 

Spacing Modifier Letters

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

ˆ

Modifier letter circumflex accent

0136

 

˜

Small tilde

0152

 

General Punctuation

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

En dash

0150

Ctrl+Num -

Em dash

0151

Alt+Ctrl+Num -

Left single quotation mark

0145

Ctrl+`,`

Right single quotation mark

0146

Ctrl+','

Single low-9 quotation mark

0130

 

"

Left double quotation mark

0147

Ctrl+`,"

"

Right double quotation mark

0148

Ctrl+',"

Double low-9 quotation mark

0132

Dagger

0134

 

Double dagger

0135

 

Bullet

0149

 

 

General Punctuation (continued)

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

Ellipsis

0133

Alt+Ctrl+.

Per mille sign

0137

 

Single left-pointing angle quotation mark

0139

 

Single right-pointing angle quotation mark

0155

 

Currency symbols

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

Euro sign

0128

Alt+Ctrl+4

Letterlike symbols

Symbol

Name

Alt key codes

MS Word Shortcut key

Trademark sign

0153

Alt+Ctrl+T

Awesome

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 19:14
Seconded. Handy to have at hand.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 22:56

Hey James Lee,

thanks for the info, where did you pull it from. If it's on a website I'd like to save it in my favorites.

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