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It is not used to enter numeric character codes. Instead, keyboard letters and numbers are used. The diagram below shows the special characters a US Mac keyboard will produce when the Option key is pressed. [1] The highlighted orange keys show the accents available from the combination of the Alt key and the keyboard characters e i u (on the ...
Use a special-character link to enter a Unicode character. Links are available under Special characters above the edit window, and below the buttons at the bottom of the edit window (for more information on the latter, see Help:CharInsert). Clicking a special-character link enters that character at the current position of the cursor in the edit ...
Notes: Dotted circle ( ) is used here to indicate a dead key, invoked using AltGr. The ` (grave accent) key is the only one that acts as a free-standing dead key and thus does not respond as shown on the key-cap. (For a complete list of the characters generated using dead keys, see QWERTY#ChromeOS.)
Just hit the Fn key, located on the bottom row, left-hand-side next to the control (ctrl) key. Don’t miss these other Windows keyboard shortcuts either. Windows symbols
This did not work for characters not in the Windows Code Page (such as box-drawing characters). The new Alt+0### combination (which prefixes a zero to each Alt code), produces characters from the newer "Windows code pages." [a] For example, Alt+ 0 1 6 3 yields the character £ (symbol for the pound sterling) which is at 163 in CP1252. [2] [b]
Unicode input is method to add a specific Unicode character to a computer file; it is a common way to input characters not directly supported by a physical keyboard. Characters can be entered either by selecting them from a display, by typing a certain sequence of keys on a physical keyboard, or by drawing the symbol by hand on touch-sensitive ...
For example, here are the different “a” characters nested under the standard letter on the iPhone keyboard: It’s not just variants on standard letters you can find hidden in your keyboard.
Some non-English language keyboards have special keys to produce accented modifications of the standard Latin-letter keys. In fact, the standard British keyboard layout includes an accent key on the top-left corner to produce àèìòù, although this is a two step procedure, with the user pressing the accent key, releasing, then pressing the letter key.