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In the table below, the column "ISO 8859-1" shows how the file signature appears when interpreted as text in the common ISO 8859-1 encoding, with unprintable characters represented as the control code abbreviation or symbol, or codepage 1252 character where available, or a box otherwise. In some cases the space character is shown as ␠.
For instance, the combination Alt+ 1 6 3 would result in ú (Latin letter u with acute accent) which is at 163 in the OEM code page of CP437 or CP850. [2] 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 diameter symbol (Unicode character U+2300) is similar to the lowercase letter ø, and in some typefaces it even uses the same glyph, although in many others the glyphs are subtly distinguishable (normally, the diameter symbol uses an exact circle and the letter o is somewhat stylized).
degree symbol ° alt + 0252. check symbol √. alt + 38. and symbol & alt + 7. bullet symbol • alt + 35. number symbol # alt + 247. approximately symbol ≈. alt + 0248. diameter symbol ø. alt ...
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages (known as character encodings in other operating systems) used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s and 1990s. Windows code pages were gradually superseded when Unicode was implemented in Windows, [citation needed] although they are still supported both within Windows and other platforms, and still apply when Alt code shortcuts are used.
This page lists codes for keyboard characters, the computer code values for common characters, such as the Unicode or HTML entity codes (see below: Table of HTML values"). There are also key chord combinations, such as keying an en dash ('–') by holding ALT+0150 on the numeric keypad of MS Windows computers.
A legacy of code page 437 is the number combinations used in Windows Alt codes. [6] [7] [8] A DOS user could enter a character by holding down the Alt key and entering the character code on the numpad [6] and many users memorized the numbers needed for CP437 (or for the similar CP850).