Accessing Special Characters
It may be arcane, it may be mystifying, it’s probably frustrating, but there are more characters than you see on the keyboard (usually). Need to find the copyright © symbol? It’s option>g. Since everyone can remember that, we can move on.
Hardly. Below is a chart which tells the secrets. This is for Macs (I'll do Windows later), with a standard character set. Also, not all characters are recognized by browsers, so some will be missing. I’d rather not (at this point) do them all as images…
| Key Cap | Char | Shift Char | Option Char | Option Shift Char |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | a | A | å | Å |
| B | b | B | ||
| C | c | C | ç | Ç |
| D | d | D | ∂ | Î |
| E | e | E | ’ | ’ |
| F | f | F | ƒ | Ï |
| G | g | G | © | ” |
| H | h | H | ⋅ | Ó |
| I | i | I | ˆ | ˆ |
| J | j | J | Δ | Ô |
| K | k | K | ° | |
| L | l | L | ¬ | Ò |
| M | m | M | μ | Â |
| N | n | N | ˜ | ˜ |
| O | o | O | ø | Ø |
| P | p | P | π | Π |
| Q | q | Q | œ | Œ |
| R | r | R | ® | ‰ |
| S | s | S | β | Í |
| T | t | T | † | |
| U | u | U | ¨ | ¨ |
| V | v | V | √ | ◊ |
| W | w | W | Σ | „ |
| X | x | X | ≈ | ¸ |
| Y | y | Y | ¥ | Á |
| Z | z | Z | Ω | ¸ |
| 1 | 1 | ! | ¡ | |
| 2 | 2 | @ | ™ | ¤ |
| 3 | 3 | # | £ | ‹ |
| 4 | 4 | $ | ¢ | › |
| 5 | 5 | % | ∞ | |
| 6 | 6 | ^ | § | |
| 7 | 7 | & | ¶ | ‡ |
| 8 | 8 | * | • | ° |
| 9 | 9 | ( | ª | · |
| 0 | 0 | ) | º | ‚ |
| ` | ˜ | ` | ` | ` |
| - | - | _ | – | — |
| = | = | + | ≠ | ± |
| [ | [ | { | “ | ” |
| ] | ] | } | ‘ | ’ |
| \ | \ | | | « | » |
| ; | ; | : | … | Ú |
| ' | ' | " | æ | Æ |
| , | , | < | ≤ | ‾ |
| . | . | > | ≥ | |
| / | / | ? | ¿ |
