Use Special Characters with ALT+NUM key
Most computers comes with popular EN language set known as US-ASCII can display different characters. A default character set popularly known as ISO1 introduced that can display special characters. A positive number associated with each character set and encoded in a table. These special characters looks likes ♣♠☻◘○♫♥♦•◙♂►◄☼♀♪
In general we can use these special characters from Start Menu >> Programs >> Accessories >> System Tool >> Character Map. Here we can choose any font from the dropdown list and simply copy the character we want. Each of these characters associated with an ALT+NUM key combination. One sample list of standard characters as follows
ALT+1 - ☺
ALT+2 - ☻
ALT+3 - ♥
ALT+4 - ♦
ALT+5 - ♣
ALT+6 - ♠
ALT+7- •
ALT+8- ◘
ALT+9 - ○
ALT+10 - ◙
ALT+11- ♂
ALT+12 - ♀
ALT+13 - ♪
ALT+14 - ♫
ALT+15 - ☼
ALT+16 - ►
ALT+17 - ◄
ALT+18 - ↕
ALT+19 - ‼
ALT+20 -
ALT+21 - §
ALT+22 - ▬
ALT+23 - ↨
ALT+24 - ↑
ALT+25 - ↓
ALT+26 - →
ALT+27 - ←
ALT+28 - ∟
ALT+29 - ↔
ALT+30 – ▲
In most keyboards you need use NUM pad with ALT key to type these symbols. Also, in few keyboards, it works while the NUM pad is off.
Few frequently used symbols -
ALT+0163 - £
ALT+0169 - ©
ALT+0174 - ®
ALT+0176 - °
ALT+0247 - ÷
Wow I knew about ascii and stuff but I never knew you could access the other symbols using num pad with alt. I’m in I.T and everything too … thanks for the tip
These are pretty basic stuff. I don’t find any reason why somebody who has access to a computer and the internet could ever skip this information.
These are cool, I knew about some of them like the copyright symbol and the trademark symbol but I didn’t know about all these other ones.
I had heard about this Special Characters but i didn’t know about his shortcut keys. Thanks for sharing this.