Thursday, December 31, 2009

Unicode Character List

To use these, open notepad or word and hold down alt while pressing the numbers on the right-side of the equal sign one at a time on the numpad*. For example, for Ü = 154, you hold alt while you press 1 on the numpad, then 5 on the numpad, then 4 on the numpad. You can also name a file with one or more of these symbols. For example, I named my music file some of the music symbols:









☺ = 1
☻ = 2
♥ = 3
♦ = 4
♣ = 5
♠ = 6
• = 7
◘ = 8
○ = 9
◙ = 10
♂ = 11
♀ = 12
♪ = 13
♫ = 14
☼ = 15
◄ = 17
► = 16
↕ = 18
‼ = 19
¶ = 20
§ = 21
▬ = 22
↨ = 23
↑ = 24
↓ = 25
→ = 26
← = 27
∟ = 28
↔ = 29
▲ = 30
▼ = 31
Characters that are on the keyboard already until:
⌂ = 127
Ç = 128
ü = 129
é = 130
â = 131
ä = 132
à = 133
å = 134
ç = 135
ê = 136
ë = 137
è = 138
ï = 139
î = 140
ì = 141
Ä = 142
Å = 143
É = 144
æ = 145
Æ = 146
ô = 147
ö = 148
ò = 149
û = 150
ù = 151
ÿ = 152
Ö = 153
Ü = 154
¢ = 155
£ = 156
¥ = 157
₧ = 158
ƒ = 159
á = 160
í = 161
ó = 162
ú = 163
ñ = 164
Ñ = 165
ª = 166
º = 167
¿ = 168
⌐ = 169
¬ = 170
½ = 171
¼ = 172
¡ = 173
« = 174
» = 175
░ = 176
▒ = 177
▓ = 178
│ = 179
┤ = 180
╡ = 181
╢ = 182
╖ = 183
╕ = 184
╣ = 185
║ = 186
╗ = 187
╝ = 188
╜ = 189
╛ = 190
┐ = 191
└ = 192
┴ = 193
┬ = 194
├ = 195
─ = 196
┼ = 197
╞ = 198
╟ = 199
╚ = 200
╔ = 201
╩ = 202
╦ = 203
╠ = 204
═ = 205
╬ = 206
╧ = 207
╨ = 208
╤ = 209
╥ = 210
╙ = 211
╘ = 212
╒ = 213
╓ = 214
╫ = 215
╪ = 216
┘ = 217
┌ = 218
█ = 219
▄ = 220
▌ = 221
▐ = 222
▀ = 223
α = 224
ß = 225
Γ = 226
π = 227
Σ = 228
σ = 229
µ = 230
τ = 231
Φ = 232
Θ = 233
Ω = 234
δ = 235
∞ = 236
φ = 237
ε = 238
∩ = 239
≡ = 240
± = 241
≥ = 242
≤ = 243
⌠ = 244
⌡ = 245
÷ = 246
≈ = 247
° = 248
∙ = 249
· = 250
√ = 251
ⁿ = 252
² = 253
■ = 254
  = 255


255 is special because it is a blank character, so if you call a file alt + 255, it will be an invisible name.

* It only works when you use the num pad. If you're using a laptop, turn on numlock and do the rest normally.

These unicode characters are really nothing compared to what else is out there. There are WAY MORE than just 255 characters in unicode, and I advise you look at the rest. To see the rest, click Start > Run, then type charmap and press enter. The most populated font I found is Arial Unicode MS, which has thousands of different characters, including chinese, arabic, and other interesting characters.

NOTE: If you want to send an email with unicode characters, watch out, most likely your recipient will not be able to see them the way you see them, just because their email program might not support unicode characters. If they are using Outlook Express, they can click View > Encoding > More > Unicode (UTF-8), and they should see the characters fine. If you find any other solution to this problem, say so!

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