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  2. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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    It’s easy to make any accent or symbol on a Windows keyboard once you’ve got the hang of alt key codes. If you’re using a desktop, your keyboard probably has a number pad off to the right ...

  3. Help:Entering special characters - Wikipedia

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    You can customize the character sets that are shown, e.g., to add more phonetic alphabet symbols, by following the directions given here. Enable the Input menu (via the 'Input Sources' panel of the 'Keyboard' System Preferences). This gives access to: the Keyboard Viewer, which can be used to view and input characters accessed via the ...

  4. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script .

  5. Tilde - Wikipedia

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    This usage probably developed as a typed alternative to the libra symbol used for the same purpose in written mathematics, which is an equal sign with the upper bar replaced by a bar with an upward hump, bump, or loop in the middle (︍︍♎︎) or, sometimes, a tilde (≃). [citation needed] The symbol "≈" is also used for this purpose.

  6. AltGr key - Wikipedia

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    It is primarily used to type characters that are used less frequently in the language that the keyboard is designed for, such as foreign currency symbols, typographic marks and accented letters. [1] The AltGr key is used to access a third and a fourth [a] grapheme for most keys.

  7. Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    fullwidth plus sign u+ff1c < fullwidth less-than sign u+ff1d = fullwidth equals sign u+ff1e > fullwidth greater-than sign u+ff3c \ fullwidth reverse solidus u+ff3e ^ fullwidth circumflex accent u+ff5c | fullwidth vertical line u+ff5e ~ fullwidth tilde u+ffe2 ¬ fullwidth not sign u+ffe9 ← halfwidth leftwards arrow u+ffea ...

  8. Wikipedia:Codes for keyboard characters - Wikipedia

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    This page lists codes for keyboard characters, the computer code values for common characters, such as the Unicode or HTML entity codes (see below: Table of HTML values"). There are also key chord combinations, such as keying an en dash ('–') by holding ALT+0150 on the numeric keypad of MS Windows computers.

  9. Alt code - Wikipedia

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    On IBM PC compatible personal computers from the 1980s, the BIOS allowed the user to hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. It would place the corresponding code into the keyboard buffer so that it would look (almost) as if the code had been entered by a single keystroke.