While poking around looking for one of the oddball characters, I stumbled across an old doc I created years ago that has all the possible characters in a particular font.
To get them use the Alt key and the numeric.
Hold down the Alt key while typing the number.
032 is start of the normal keyboard sequence “ ” a space.
0126 is the typical end “ ~ ”
0127 is the Delete
There is stuff hiding below 032 and from 0128 to 0255
Below 32 are usually formatting and control codes.
The characters above 127 are all those “special” characters.
Like in Arial: Æ, Ñ, æ, Ø
Different fonts may or may not have anything in those ASCII numbers.
And may not display at all in some instances.
This is for Word for Windows by the way.
The actual ASCII # does not include the leading 0.
Anyhow, just thought you might be interested.
All the Best,
Jeff
You can click on the image to make it larger.
Unfortunately, you can’t do this on Android mobile devices, or any device that has a virtual keyboard.
However, there is a website that provides a whole array of characters and font modifications. It’s free and can be used in any browser. The site is called yaytext.com. My most common use of it is the bold-italic page.
Didn’t know that was a thing!
Much easier than my doc.
But mine has been passed down since W3.1.
Back when there were like 25 free fonts or the fonts came with the printer.
I used to print out a page for each.
All the Best,
Jeff
Thanks for that chart! A blast from the past.
I was a Network Analyst with xerox. Deeply into printing of all kinds; text of course, barcodes (the devil’s own print hell), Unix platforms migrating from green bar impact printers to laser (pure ASCII, except when not… ), Pantone color, etc. Also worked with Kyocera’s proprietary Prescribe print language & coding. Extremely flexible & brutal in it’s DOS-like logic. !R! (only a Kyocera geek would get that).
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I still have my Pantone strips someplace.
I used to write/modify printer drivers for Word for DOS.
The manufacturers often left out features that could only be accessed by a custom driver.
I loved Word, It freed me from having to hand write or type stuff.
If something like that had been available (just for me) when I was in college/grad-school, I would have been imagined to have God like powers.
Printer control codes - always an adventure!
I once had a Xerox/Diablo Daisy Wheel that could print both normal and Italics
(from the same character wheel) at 90+(?) characters/second. It was just nifty to watch/hear it do it’s thing.
Had an Oki dot matrix that was spooky fast on those green bar tractor feed forms. Not as fast as impact printers - but impressive none the less.
That’s pretty cool. Stuff there that would be hard to find just looking to do something fancy in a site that doesn’t easily support it.
All the Best,
Jeff
), Pantone color, etc. Also worked with Kyocera’s proprietary Prescribe print language & coding. Extremely flexible & brutal in it’s DOS-like logic. !R! (only a Kyocera geek would get that).
