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 Diacritics

 Money

* To (re)produce the euro sign you need to have installed a font featuring €.

 Mathematical

 Punctuation

Punctiation 1: quotation Marks

quotes single high open	‘	0145		0146	’	quotes single high close
quotes double high open	“	0147		0148	”	quotes double high close
quotes single low open	‚	0130		0132	„	quotes double low open
guillemet ouvert	‹	0139		0155	›	guillemet fermé
guillemets ouverts	«	0171		0187	»	guillemets fermés

Punctuation 2: miscellaneous

bullet	•	0149		0133	…	elipsis
dagger 1	†	0134		0135	‡	dagger 2
En dash	–	0150		0151	—	Em dash
paragraph/section	§	0167		0182	¶	paragraph flag
Start exclamation	¡	0161		0191	¿	Start question

 Miscellaneous

 Explanations

Many Anglos are unaware that they can produce more than twice as many characters on their computers as appear directly as one- or two-key strokes on their QWERTY keyboards. These 'invisible' characters all have an ANSI code value greater than 0127 and, using standard Western European font sets (the norm in Italy, The Netherlands and Scandinavia, as well as in all countries where they speak English, French, Portuguese or Spanish) are listed above according to category. The characters are, in ANSI code order from 0128 to 0255 ( = unused/empty): €  ‚ ƒ „ … † ‡ ˆ ‰ Š ‹ Œ  Ž  (0128-0143)  ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ˜ ™ š › œ  ž Ÿ (0144-0159)   ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © Œ « ¬ ­ « ¯ (160-175) ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · © ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿ (176-191) À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï (0192-0207) Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß (0208-0223) à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï (0224-0239) ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ (0240-0255).

Most desktop packages have their own key combinations for accessing these characters, but software for email and standard text editing do not. Microsoft Windows offers one way of producing these characters: you call up Character Map, double click the required character, click Copy, and paste it into whatever text you are writing. But there is a quicker way...

The quick way to produce the extra characters without having to open another window. Proceed as follows:

1. ensure the Num Lock key is Off;
2. while holding down the Alt key, type 4 figures on the number pad (e.g. 0138 for Š),
3. release the Alt key to let the required character appear.

This page shows characters not featured on English language computer keyboards alongside the digits to type (e.g. Alt-0138 for Š). To facilitate finding the characters you want, they have been listed systematically or alphabetically on this page, not in ANSI character code order.

 ‘Symbol’ Font