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Old 10-06-2016, 05:33 PM
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Ī fìńd áłł thęßê ödd çhãràčtérš rāthėr ãñńøÿíńg tó łôćætē õń mÿ ìPäd!
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mac seems a lot easier as it's just alt and one key eg alt 2 is the trdemark
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Old 10-06-2016, 09:39 PM
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Old 10-06-2016, 11:28 PM
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Try these:
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I use the Alt codes all the time. A couple more that aren't on Ron's chart:

Alt 0181 µ (micro)
Alt 0248 ø (diameter)

Al.
Plus the ever useful Icelandic Thorn character -

Alt 0222 Þ (Icelandic Thorn)

Originally from the Old English and Old Norse alphabets but now only used in the Icelandic alÞhabet.

Just the thing if you need to communicate with someone ... from Iceland.

According to WikiÞedia, "it is pronounced as a laminal voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative".
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Old 11-06-2016, 06:42 AM
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Thanks Gary. That helps a lot!

Was that last bit in English or Icelandic?

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Old 11-06-2016, 08:50 AM
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Ī fìńd áłł thęßê ödd çhãràčtérš rāthėr ãñńøÿíńg tó łôćætē õń mÿ ìPäd!
That takes patience

✁+✃=✂︎

⌄+a=⎀

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Old 12-06-2016, 03:29 PM
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Degree Sign

If you run Windows and Word:
go to the "Insert" tab
select "Symbol" on the utmost right (unless you have rearranged the bar)
select "More Symbols" at the bottom of the drop-down.
in the pop-up select the font you are using.
scroll down until you find the appropriate special character
highlight the character
click "Insert" at the bottom of the box
Bingo.....
from then; just copy and paste the special character as needed...
When done with the text, copy and paste the entire text into the application you use.
Hope this helpsº as it did just nowº
I use this all the time because I need the Umlaut (Ä) characters for Europe ever so often.
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I have never understood that there is no standardized way to enter these characters.
On touchscreens it is already way better: holding e.g. the 'a' allows entering áâäà with a small popup. Why not on a computer keyboard ?

The Alt-xxx method is cumbersome: one has to remember all these codes and reminds of the MS-DOS era which is not of this age anymore.

Anyway, on the Mac is is easier than under Windows: degree = <option>-zero and umlaut = <option>-U + <char to be umlauted>. Under Windows this is very stupid: the " key is abused as a 'dead' key to umlaut a character, so using the " itself requires an extra space.

Another issue is that some websites refuse to use the UTF-8 standard which results in small diamonds or question marks when such accented / umlauted characters are displayed.
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option + 0 = º on real computer i.e. Apple :-)
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