Cheat sheet for characters?

[1940LaSalle]

A lot of non-alphanumeric characters (e.g., the double dagger, ‡)
have
sequences of keystrokes involving the ALT key and four keypad strokes
(e.g., 0135 in the case of the double dagger). Does anyone know of a
guide/cheat sheet for those symbols (e.g, the right arrow, →) that
have a code (which is U+2192 in this case) but no ALT/keypad sequence
apparently associated? Thanks.

 

[aaron.kempf]

you just need to look for something called 'unicode'

I would use the 'keyboard map' that is included with windows; i believe
that it literally shows you the decimal equivalents

<START>, <PROGRAMS>, <ACCESSORIES>, <SYSTEM TOOLS>, 'Character Map'


now is where it gets fuzzy.

i think that the 'number' you see is really in HEX.
so there are some that look like 012A for example; but you just have to
type it out i think

I'm just kinda clueless how to translate a 4-digit hex mark into a
4-digit decimal; it just won't fit

so it's my assumption that 0135 is just a hex string that happens to
not have any of the letters A-F

hth & good luck

-Aaron

 

[Bob Phillips]

Try this

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/chars.htm

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Bob Phillips

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A lot of non-alphanumeric characters (e.g., the double dagger, ?)
have
sequences of keystrokes involving the ALT key and four keypad strokes
(e.g., 0135 in the case of the double dagger). Does anyone know of a
guide/cheat sheet for those symbols (e.g, the right arrow, ?) that
have a code (which is U+2192 in this case) but no ALT/keypad sequence
apparently associated? Thanks.