Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

[The Toecutter]

I remember some pavilion members wondering how to make funky keyboard characters. If you have a windows OS and a compatable keyboard, it's actually quite easy.

First, an example. Lets say you wanted to make the '£' character. Here's how to do it step by step.

1) Make sure the 'Num Lock' function is enabled
2) Hold down 'Alt'. Do not let go of 'Alt' until the instructions tell you to
3) Using your other hand, press '1' on the number pad
4) Take your finger off of '1'
5) Press '5' on the number pad
6) Take your finger off of '5'
7) Press '6' on the number pad
8) Take your finger off of '6'
9) Take your finger off of 'Alt'.

Why does the combination of 1-5-6 yield the '£' symbol? Because that is its assigned ASCII(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) value converted to decimal.

You can look at all the ASCII values here:

http://www.asciitable.com/

For example, following the above steps using the numbers 1-2-8 yields 'Ç'. 1-4-3 yields 'Å', the symbol to denote an angstrom, which is 10^-10 meters in length and has applications in fields ranging from chemistry to semiconductors, most typically used to describe applications done on an atomic scale.


Note: If you have a browser window open with available text boxes(such as on a web forum), holding down 'Alt' and entering a sequnce of numbers is likely to change your browser's location.

[altoecko]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

Why does everyone have to hold me down? I don't understand, I thought we were friends Terr.

[The Toecutter]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

That comment took some wit.

[TheHonorableRyu]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

Witty pun = now I can go to sleep.


I used to use a couple of these for emotes:

Ü Ö ó.o

[Fushigi na Renamon]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

Neat! °-°

[H2SO4]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

∫†∂®†¥ƒ®†¥∂´®†ß¥†¥©√˙√©ç®¥©


Lot's of mine don't work on this forum.

On a mac all I do is hold down alt and press a key and another symbol pops up.

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

I like this one þ for emotes. =þ It's also the way I sign off on paperwork at work instead of a checkmark.

[Owl of Parliament]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

I sometimes will make a ¢ but then I forget what combination of numbers makes a cents symbol.
...
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[Funk]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

The only one I have memorized is é.

I use it to spell résumé.

[neobi]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

∫†∂®†¥ƒ®†¥∂´®†ß¥†¥©√˙√©ç®¥©


Lot's of mine don't work on this forum.

On a mac all I do is hold down alt and press a key and another symbol pops up.

Also on a mac if you hold alt+shift they all change again. I'm sure most of these won't work:
ALT
`¡™£¢∞§¶•ªº–≠«‘“πøˆ¨¥†®´∑œåß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æ÷≥≤µ˜∫√ç≈Ω

ALT+SHIFT
`⁄€‹›fifl‡°·‚—±»’”∏؈¨Áˇ‰´„ŒÅÍÎÏ˝ÓÔÒÚÆ¿˘¯Â˜ı◊Dz¸*


Back in the day Alt CTRL use to yield even more too.

[Sejon]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

That's a handy titbit of information. Now I can spell it "coöperate", just as it should be!

[jspaceman]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

great info.

thanks terr

[Red Dragon]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

...

I've told you all how to do this 100 times.

☆WHERE IS MY LOVE!!!☆

[jspaceman]

Re: Have you ever wanted to know how to make funky characters with your keyboard?

i am a guy.

you need to tell me 101 times before
i listen.