I don't know about you, but working with notepad or in email programs, I have a tough time finding unusual letters, foreign accents and rare symbols. After some internet sleuthing, I've come up with these to cut-and-paste into the text. Please add more as you find them!

« » « » European quotation marks

¡ ! Upside-down Spanisjh imperative

¿ ? Upside-down Spanish Interrogative

¢ cent

£ pound

¤ circle with dashes at NE, SE, SW, and NW

¥ yen

¦ Vertical line, maybe with gap in middle

§ Section sign (like hurricane symbol on weather maps)

¨ Two dots up in the air

© Copyright sign

® Registered sign (R in a circle)

ª lower case "a" up in the air

« Two small less-than signs: the German open-quote

»Two small greater-than signs: the German close-quote

¯ Macron (horizontal line up in the air)

° Degree sign

± Plus-or-minus sign

º lower case "o" up in the air

¹ 1 up in the air

² 2 up in the air

³ 3 up in the air

` accent grave

´ accent aigue

ˆ circumflex

µ Micro sign, lower case Greek Mu

· Decimal Point (English style, mid-level)

¸ Small sickle shape, low down

¼ One quarter

½ One half

¾ Three quarters

× Times sign: narrow x without serifs

÷ Division sign: a colon with a dash through it

Ð Old English voiced "Th", "D" with dash through upright

> Less than sign.

< Greater than sign.

& ampersand.

" Double quote sign.

¢ Cent sign.

£ Pound sterling.

¤ General currency sign.

¥ Yen sign.

§ Section sign.

¨ Umlaut (dieresis).

© Copyright.

® Registered trademark.

° Degree sign.

· Middle Dot.

¼ Fraction one-fourth.

½ Fraction one-half.

¾ Fraction three-fourths.

ï Small, i, umlaut (dieresis).

¡ Inverted exclamation mark.

Á Capital A, acute accent.

À Capital A, grave accent.

 Captital A, circumflex accent.

à Capital A, tilde.

Å Capital A, ring.

Ä Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark.

Æ Capital AE dipthong (ligature).

Ç Captital C, cedilla.

É Capital E, acute accent.

È Capital E, grave accent.

Ê Capital E, circumflex accent.

Ë Capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark.

Í Capital I, acute accent.

Ì Capital I, grave accent.

Ï Capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark.

Ð Capital Eth, Icelandic.

Ñ Capital N, tilde.

Ó Capital O, acute accent.

Ò Capital O, grave accent.

Ô Capital O, circumflex accent.

Õ Capital O, tilde.

Ö Capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark.

Ø Capital O, Capital O, slash.

Ú Capital U, acute accent.

Ù Capital U, grave accent.

ˆ Capital U, circumflex accent.

Ü Capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark.

Ý Capital Y, acute accent.

Þ Capital THORN, Icelandic.

ß Small sharp s, German (sz ligature).

á Small a, acute accent.

à Small a, grave accent.

â Small a, circumflex accent.

ã Small a, tilde.

ä Small a, dieresis or umlaut mark.

æ Small a, dipthong (ligature).

ç Small a, cedilla.

é Small e, acute accent.

è Small e, grave accent.

ê Small e, circumflex accent.

ë Small e, dieresis or umlaut mark.

í Small i,acute accent.

ì Small i, grave accent.

î Small i, circumflex accent.

ï Small i,dieresis or umlaut mark.

ð Small eth, Icelandic.

ñ Small n, tilde.

ó Small o, acute accent.

ò Small o, grave accent.

ô Small o, circumflex accent.

õ Small o, tilde.

ö Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark.

ø Small o, slash.

ú Small u, acute accent.

ù Small u, grave accent.

û Small u, circumflex accent.

ü Small u, dieresis or umlaut mark.

ý Small y, acute accent.

þ Small thorn, Icelandic.

ÿ Dieresis or umlaut mark

this'll help...sometimes I can't find some symbols :D

You forgot** the male & female organs .. er, .. symbols .. and .. the heart (somebody here has it on their profile page)


**but it looks like your paste job trailed off

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hmmm ... my text editor doesn't seem to be unicode capable .. I'll just have to have Darryl follow me around

Press Num Lock, hold down the ALT key and start with the 1 key then release.

• bullet point
™ TradeMark
… ellipsis
æ dipthong
? not equal
œ dipthong
?
¥
ø
?
ß
?
ƒ
?
?
?
?
?
€
‡
– en dash
— em dash

just use the alt numeric keys.....there is a list somewhere

http://www.britfeld.com/aboutme/alt.htm

http://www.mesweet.net/altkeysymbols.html

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html

Woo-hoo ! Got It ! Can't link to save my soul, but I can do this ! ☺ ☻ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ • ◘ ○ ◙ ♂ ♀ ♪ ♫ ☼ ► ◄ ↕ ‼ ¶ § ▬ ↨ ↑ ↓ → ← ∟ ↔ ▲

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On a windows machine, most should have a character map. It can ussually be found around here. Start/all programs/accessories/system/character map.

So are these the typical &blahblah type stuff?

What typical " blahblah type stuff" are you looking for Noah ?

I think he's refering to html encoding, such as the ampersand is encoded "&" then "amp" then ";"

Tone down the technobabble Noah! My head is spinning!! ;-)

uh, so just copy and paste, got it.

Actually, you can do it the way you meant, Noah, Example: ±