Placing Special Characters into a Text file.......

  We often feel problem when we have to put some spacial characters like ∞, â and many more these symbols are not listed in normal keyboards. For placing these symbols on blog or any text file in windows there are two methods. These are native windows services so no need to download any software for this kind of formatting.

Following are methods of placing these characters into text file:

1. Character Map: For placing the characters from the character map follow the following steps:

i.   Press "Windows+R", a run dialog box will appear.

ii.  Type "charmap" without quotation and press enter.

iii. A character map will open. Select the symbol which has to be past.

iv.  Press Select button you can make string of symbols using select button.

v.   Press copy button and past where you need it.

2. Alt Keystroke : One can past any sysmbol into a text file using " alt + <symbol number> " Only Extended ASCII symbols can placed using this method. But character map will place unicode symbols.

  For Example press Alt+65 this will place the 'A' in the text.

Other alt key code are given below. Use them for format the text files.

Alt + 1   ☺

2 ☻

3 ♥

4 ♦

5 ♣

6 ♠

7 •

8 ◘

9 ○

10 ◙

11 ♂

12 ♀

13 ♪

14 ♫

15 ☼

16 ►

17 ◄

18 ↕

19 ‼

20 ¶

21 §

22 ▬

23 ↨

24 ↑

25 ↓

26 →

27 ←

28 ∟

29 ↔

30 ▲

31 ▼

32   'space'

33 !

34 "

35 #

36 $

37 %

38 &

39 '

40 (

41 )

42 *

43 +

44 ,

45 -

46 .

47 /

127 ⌂

128 Ç

129 ü

130 é

131 â

132 ä

133 à

134 å

135 ç

136 ê

137 ë

138 è

139 ï

140 î

141 ì

142 Ä

143 Å

144 É

145 æ

146 Æ

147 ô

148 ö

224 α

225 ß

226 Γ

227 π

228 Σ

229 σ

230 µ

231 τ

232 Φ

233 Θ

234 Ω

235 δ

236 ∞

237 φ

These are some examples of them...

for the full character set use following link.

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/altchrc.html