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#MICROSOFT WORD LIST OF SYMBOLS CODE#

Type the Unicode value (code point) into the character code box and press Enter. Knowing the Unicode value means you can quickly jump to that character in Insert Symbol in any Office app. That number or code-point is really useful in Office and especially Word for Windows. Leading zeros can be ignored so U+00A9 (Copyright ©) is the same as U+A9 The number is in Hexadecimal (base 16) so there are letters (A to F) as well as numbers. Unicode values are normally shown in the form U+nnnnn U+Nnn for Code PointsĮach character in Unicode is a ‘code point’ or number allocated to that symbol. Yes, there are a few minor exceptions to the Unicode standard that we’ll explain later but almost always Unicode rules, which is great for everyone. You don’t have to worry about compatibility across the globe. These days Unicode is the accepted computing standard for all manner of characters and symbols. Modern Word has a fallback feature to stop you choosing a font which doesn’t have the symbol you’ve typed. Long time Word users will remember seeing a box symbol ▯, (itself a Unicode symbol U+25AF ) when the font didn’t have that character. Some cover a lot of symbols (Arial Unicode MS has wide coverage) but most limit themselves to a tiny fraction of the Unicode possibilities. Most fonts don’t have all the Unicode symbols.

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They gradually adapted their software to work with Unicode and that’s been in place for a long time. All major companies adopted Unicode including Microsoft and Apple. Over time, the Unicode Consortium has added more symbols and languages now it’s up to version 13 and can handle millions of characters. Also commonly used symbols like musical notes, chess pieces, maths and technical symbols even Egyptian hieroglyphs. Then they allocated character codes for more symbols and characters in languages. That made software and document compatibility a lot easier. Unicode started by adopting ASCII (strictly ISO/IEC 8859-1) for the first 255-character values. That need for future expansion happened sooner and, in a way, perhaps not expected by the original Unicode designers. Not just the current languages but plenty of room for future expansion into areas not yet envisioned.

Unicode started in 1991 as a new character standard that could handle a much larger range of symbols. There was a lot of confusion and difficulty. There were complex systems to handle non-Latin languages but they weren’t standardized. Simplified Chinese needs 8,105 symbols let alone Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Hindi, Arabic and plenty of other languages. Something much, much bigger than ASCII was necessary for computers to work globally and seamlessly. There are many other characters needed for Asian, African and other languages. Numbers and some common symbols like $£ %^&½©®™() etc.Ģ55 characters was enough in the early days of computers, but it clearly wasn’t enough for global use.

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26 letters, upper and lower plus accented characters like àáæçèëðñøüýÿ. They covered 255 characters in Latin-based languages (English, French, German, American etc). The original standards for computer symbols where ANSI and ASCII (effectively the same for this discussion). Translating characters into computer numbers needs a standard so that a document or email from one computer is understood elsewhere even if the receiver uses totally different software. A short history of computer symbol standards There are thousands to choose from in the Unicode standard. The code numbers become important if you want to quickly type some less common, non-keyboard, non-shortcut symbols. You don’t need to know that typing capital K is saved as code 75 (decimal) or 4B (Hex) in the document because Word or other programs handles that for you. Normally these numbers are hidden from view because the characters are on your keyboard or there’s a shortcut. For example, capital A is 65 (decimal), lower case m is 109.

That means each letter, number, symbol and emojis needs a number linked to that character. But occasionally things don’t work the right way and then a little background info will help you fix the problem and get working again.Ĭomputers only understand numbers. Like many things in modern computing, you mostly don’t have to know the details of how things work. Confused about Unicode, code-points and other techie details about inserting symbols? Here’s how it works and can work for you in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other apps.

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