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Cut and paste list for fancy characters

Whenever I want a special character I always have to go to the Windows character map, or find some Unicode reference online. FileFormat.Info is a fantastic resource when it's up... but, it's not. I've been meaning to do this for a while: I'm starting a list of all non-ASCII characters I ever use so that I can cut and paste them from here.

Accents: ÀàÁáÂâÃãÄäÅ寿ŒœÇçÈèÉéÊêËëÌìÍíÎîÏïÑñÒòÓóÔôÕõÖöÙùÚúÛûÜüŸÿÝýŠšÞþÐß

Quotes/brackets/punctuation: ‘(lq)’(rq)“(lqq)”(rqq)❛❜❝❞‹›«»〈〉…•(bullet)†‡§¶–(en)—(em)‰

Math/logic:
∀∃□◇¬→↔∨∧⇒⇔∴±×÷⋅(dot)⊥∅⊖⊂⊆⊄∈∋∉∝∞∪∩∼≈≡≠≤≥≪≫⌈⌉⌊⌋
⅛¼⅓⅜½⅝⅔¾⅞°(deg)⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉ℤℝℜµ∫√∏∑∂№‰

Legal/currency: ™©®¥£€¤¢

Foreign language: ¡¿ΩωλΘ(upper)θ(lower)ΦπΔαβγ

Other:
☺☻♀♂℞☤☠☢★☆☯☮☧✓✔❤♪♫♭♮♯
♔♕♖♗♘♙♚♛♜♝♞♟♡♢♧♤♥♦♣♠
↲←↑↓

What else should I have? Smiley

This resource was useful as well, and here's a list of HTML entities.

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Adam V. (http://flangy.com) wrote:

Which reminds me, I still have to write that Win32 tray applet that provides a drop-down window for copying characters to the clipboard. Except in my case all I usually want is the ellipses character. It looks a lot nicer in a menu than three periods, but then I'm weird about that sort of thing.

∴ Adam V. | 19-Nov-2004 2:28pm est | http://flangy.com | #6387

Matt wrote:

Adam, just fyi, your flangy.com site has broken css.

∴ Matt | 19-Nov-2004 2:43pm est | #6389

Matt wrote:

or not, its simple on pupose.

∴ Matt | 19-Nov-2004 2:44pm est | #6390

Adam V. (http://flangy.com) wrote:

I really have to move my personal stuff over to adamv.com and "business up" flangy.com. And of course validate the HTML/CSS on both sites.

∴ Adam V. | 19-Nov-2004 5:20pm est | http://flangy.com | #6392

Bryan Price (http://www.bytehead.org/blog/) wrote:

I have a list of special characters for cut/paste or for &ed codes as well. Like my little snowman. This works with Mozilla (1.7.3) and the unicode truetype fonts loaded. IE won't show them all. Which is kinda of... what's the point then MS?

∴ Bryan Price | 12-Dec-2004 8:26pm est | http://www.bytehead.org/blog/ | #6603

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

That snowman is so cute!

Is your cut and paste list online?

Also, some of Unicode is funky -- I'm primarily referring to the fonts that are used. For instance, all the exponents don't look the same (⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹) (at least in Firefox). They're taken from different ranges in Unicode, and I presume have different source fonts or something. Also, the modal logic operators, box and diamond (□◇) aren't the same size in Firefox, though they are in IE.

Keith | 12-Dec-2004 8:55pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #6604

Bryan Price (http://www.bytehead.org/blog/) wrote:

Wow. I thought I put that URL in there. My geek license has been revoked! :-P

http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~bytehead/specials.html

There's my specials, which you can either cut/paste, or use the HTML references.

Now, to preview and make sure that I have the URL where I want it!

∴ Bryan Price | 13-Dec-2004 3:06pm est | http://www.bytehead.org/blog/ | #6612

Thomas Scholz (http://scholz-webdesign.de/) wrote:

I made something similar some time ago: 3 sidebars for Opera (or Mozilla) Unicode Charts with hexadecimal and decimal reference numbers.

∴ Thomas Scholz | 9-Nov-2005 4:15pm est | http://scholz-webdesign.de/ | #8636

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