The ANSI character set uses them for foreign languages and math and publishing symbols (copyright, trademark, etc.). In the Mac, the upper 128 characters can be custom drawn.

Web pages, such as Penn State's Computing with Foreign Symbols page, have categorized lists of special symbols along with their corresponding numeric keyboard codes (see link in Resources).

You can bring up the Character Viewer (also called Emoji & Symbols) through several methods: On a keyboard with a , you can press that key to bring up the viewer. (If pressing doesn’t bring up ...

Apple offers robust support in macOS for Unicode, a standard that provides a unique number to represent characters and symbols.Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for scientific ...

Use the TwitterKeys applet to spice up your Twitter posts with special characters and symbols. 3. Click the newly created bookmark. If nothing happens, make sure a pop-up isn’t being blocked. 4.