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On IBM PC compatible personal computers from the 1980s, the BIOS allowed the user to hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. It would place the corresponding code into the keyboard buffer so that it would look (almost) as if the code had been entered by a single keystroke.
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.
The Arabic keyboard (Arabic: لوحة المفاتيح العربية, romanized: lawḥat al-mafātīḥ al-ʕarabiyya) is the Arabic keyboard layout used for the Arabic alphabet. All computer Arabic keyboards contain both Arabic letters and Latin letters , the latter being necessary for URLs and e-mail addresses .
special characters that are not available in the limited character set are stored in the form of a multi-character code; there are usually two or three equivalent representations, e.g. for the character € the named character reference € and the decimal character reference € and the hexadecimal character reference €. The edit ...
ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. ASCII has just 128 code points, of which only 95 are printable characters, which severely limit its scope. The set of available punctuation had significant impact on the syntax of computer languages and text markup.
It’s easy to make any accent or symbol on a Windows keyboard once you’ve got the hang of alt key codes. If you’re using a desktop, your keyboard probably has a number pad off to the right ...
(Note that in a computer's memory, the order of the Hebrew characters is ב,א,מ,ת.) With an RLM added after the exclamation mark, it renders as follows: I enjoyed staying -- באמת! -- at his house. (Standards-compliant browsers will render the exclamation mark on the right in the first example, and on the left in the second.)
Code Result Unicode name U+0600 Arabic Number Sign U+0601 Arabic Sign Sanah U+0602 Arabic Footnote Marker U+0603 Arabic Sign Safha U+0604 Arabic Sign Samvat used for writing Samvat era dates in Urdu U+0605 Arabic Number Mark Above may be used with Coptic Epact numbers U+0606 ؆