I often find myself searching for how to type a character that's not present on the standard keyboard. Depending on the context and what system I'm using the process is different and the information was spread across several websites, so I decided to gather it all in one convenient place.
Character | Unicode | HTML | HTML | Compose Key | Alt Code | Description | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
! | Ux0021 | ! | 33 | Exclamation Mark | |||
" | Ux0022 | " | 34 | Quotation Mark | |||
# | Ux0023 | # | 35 | Number Sign | |||
$ | Ux0024 | $ | 36 | Dollar Sign | |||
% | Ux0025 | % | 37 | Percent Sign | |||
& | Ux0026 | & | & | 38 | Ampersand | ||
' | Ux0027 | ' | 39 | Apostrophe | |||
( | Ux0028 | ( | 40 | Opening/Left Parenthesis | |||
) | Ux0029 | ) | 41 | Closing/Right Parenthesis | |||
* | Ux002a | * | 42 | Asterisk | |||
+ | Ux002b | + | 43 | Plus Sign | |||
, | Ux002c | , | 44 | Comma | |||
- | Ux002d | - | 45 | Hyphen | |||
. | Ux002e | . | 46 | Period | |||
/ | Ux002f | / | 47 | Slash | |||
: | Ux003a | : | 58 | Colon | |||
; | Ux003b | ; | 59 | Semicolon | |||
< | Ux003c | < | < | 60 | Less-Than | ||
= | Ux003d | = | 61 | Equals Sign | |||
> | Ux003e | > | > | 62 | Greater Than | ||
? | Ux003f | ? | 63 | Question Mark | |||
@ | Ux0040 | @ | 64 | At Sign | |||
[ | Ux005b | [ | 91 | Opening/Left Square Bracket | |||
\ | Ux005c | \ | 92 | Backslash | |||
] | Ux005d | ] | 93 | Closing/Right Square Bracket | |||
^ | Ux005e | ^ | 94 | Caret | |||
_ | Ux005f | _ | 95 | Underscore | |||
` | Ux0060 | ` | 96 | Grave Accent | |||
Ux0020 | 255 32 0160 | Space | |||||
{ | Ux007b | { | 123 | Opening/Left Curly Brace | |||
| | Ux007c | | | 124 | Vertical Bar | |||
} | Ux007d | } | 125 | Closing/Right Curly Brace | |||
~ | Ux007e | ~ | 126 | Tilde | |||
Ux00a0 | |     | " " | Space Non-Breaking Nobreakspace No-Break | |||
¡ | Ux00a1 | ¡ | ¡ | "!!" | 0161 173 | Inverted Exclamation Mark Exclamdown | |
¢ | Ux00a2 | ¢ | ¢ | "|c" "c|" "c/" "/c" | 155 0162 | Cent Sign | |
£ | Ux00a3 | £ | £ | "L-" "-L" | 156 0163 | Pound Sign | |
¤ | Ux00a4 | ¤ | ¤ | "ox" "xo" | 0164 | Currency Sign | |
¥ | Ux00a5 | ¥ | ¥ | "Y=" "=Y" | 157 0165 | Yen Sign | |
¦ | Ux00a6 | ¦ | ¦ | "!^" | 0166 | Broken Vertical Bar Brokenbar | |
§ | Ux00a7 | § | § | "so" "os" | 21 0167 | Section Sign | |
¨ | Ux00a8 | ¨ | ¨ | 0168 | Spacing Diaeresis | ||
© | Ux00a9 | © | © | "oc" "oC" "Oc" "OC" | 0169 | Copyright Sign | |
ª | Ux00aa | ª | ª | "^_a" | 166 0170 | Feminine Ordinal Indicator | |
« | Ux00ab | « | « | "<<" | 174 0171 | Opening/Left Angle Quotation Mark Guillemotleft Left-Pointing Double | |
¬ | Ux00ac | ¬ | ¬ | ",-" "-," | 170 0172 | Negation Not Sign | |
| Ux00ad | ­ | ­ | Soft Hyphen | |||
® | Ux00ae | ® | ® | "or" "oR" "Or" "OR" | 0174 | Registered Trademark Sign | |
¯ | Ux00af | ¯ | ¯ | 0175 | Spacing Macron | ||
° | Ux00b0 | ° | ° | "oo" | 0176 248 | Degree Sign | |
± | Ux00b1 | ± | ± | "+-" | 0177 241 | Plus Or Minus Plusminus Plus-Minus Sign | |
² | Ux00b2 | ² | ² | "^2" | 253 0178 | Superscript 2 Two | |
³ | Ux00b3 | ³ | ³ | "^3" | 0179 | Superscript 3 Three | |
´ | Ux00b4 | ´ | ´ | 0180 | Spacing Acute | ||
µ | Ux00b5 | µ | µ | "mu" | 230 0181 | Micro Sign | |
¶ | Ux00b6 | ¶ | ¶ | "p!" "P!" "PP" | 20 0182 | Paragraph Pilcrow Sign | |
· | Ux00b7 | ".." | 0183 250 | Middle Dot | |||
¸ | Ux00b8 | ¸ | ¸ | ", " " ," | 0184 | Spacing Cedilla | |
¹ | Ux00b9 | ¹ | ¹ | "^1" | 0185 | Superscript 1 One | |
º | Ux00ba | º | º | "^_o" | 167 0186 | Masculine Ordinal Indicator | |
» | Ux00bb | » | » | ">>" | 175 0187 | Closing/Right Angle Quotation Mark Guillemotright Right-Pointing Double | |
¼ | Ux00bc | ¼ | ¼ | "14" | 172 0188 | Fraction 1/4 Vulgar One Quarter | |
½ | Ux00bd | ½ | ½ | "12" | 171 0189 | Fraction 1/2 Vulgar One Half | |
¾ | Ux00be | ¾ | ¾ | "34" | 0190 | Fraction 3/4 Vulgar Three Quarters | |
¿ | Ux00bf | ¿ | ¿ | "??" | 168 0191 | Inverted Question Mark Questiondown | |
À | Ux00c0 | À | À | "`A" | 0192 | Capital A With Grave Accent Latin Letter | |
Á | Ux00c1 | Á | Á | "'A" | 0193 | Capital A With Acute Accent Latin Letter | |
 | Ux00c2 |  |  | "^A" | 0194 | Capital A With Circumflex Accent Latin Letter | |
à | Ux00c3 | à | à | "~A" | 0195 | Capital A With Tilde Latin Letter | |
Ä | Ux00c4 | Ä | Ä | ""A" | 142 0196 | Capital A With Umlaut Latin Letter Diaeresis | |
Å | Ux00c5 | Å | Å | "oA" | 143 0197 | Capital A With Ring Latin Letter Above | |
Æ | Ux00c6 | Æ | Æ | "AE" | 146 0198 | Capital Ae Latin Letter | |
Ç | Ux00c7 | Ç | Ç | ",C" | 128 0199 | Capital C With Cedilla Latin Letter | |
È | Ux00c8 | È | È | "`E" | 0200 | Capital E With Grave Accent Latin Letter | |
É | Ux00c9 | É | É | "'E" | 144 0201 | Capital E With Acute Accent Latin Letter | |
Ê | Ux00ca | Ê | Ê | "^E" | 0202 | Capital E With Circumflex Accent Latin Letter | |
Ë | Ux00cb | Ë | Ë | ""E" | 0203 | Capital E With Umlaut Latin Letter Diaeresis | |
Ì | Ux00cc | Ì | Ì | "`I" | 0204 | Capital I With Grave Accent Latin Letter | |
Í | Ux00cd | Í | Í | "'I" | 0205 | Capital I With Accute Accent Latin Letter Acute | |
Î | Ux00ce | Î | Î | "^I" | 0206 | Capital I With Circumflex Accent Latin Letter | |
Ï | Ux00cf | Ï | Ï | ""I" | 0207 | Capital I With Umlaut Latin Letter Diaeresis | |