Put special characters into the posts, eg ALT14=?

It would be nice to be able to add the ALTxxx characters easily to posts in much the came way as we add smilies. I don't know about the rest of you but I can not remember the numbers to get a particular character. eg 'ALT2'=?, 'ALT6'=♠

1-9=??♥♦♣♠•??

10-19= ?????¤????

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Arrr, that came out better in the edit box to put this post in. Must be a different font. Just goes to show, I can not remember.
29/Oct/07 12:52 PM
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Hello vdV - I used to have a big list of those characters but think I must have left it at work years ago, and do you think I can remember any of them. NO! I now remember the é one thanks to writing André's name.
There are certainly some of the characters that come in handy. ♣♠♥♦ there's a pack of playing cards.☻☺
29/Oct/07 5:43 PM
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Oh, they come out all distorted once posted.
29/Oct/07 5:43 PM
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Alt 13 = ♪
29/Oct/07 6:09 PM
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alt 1 = ☺ 2 = ☻ 3 = ♥ 4 = ♦ 5 = ♣
alt 6 = ♠ 7 = • 8 = ◘ 9 = ○ 10 = ◙
I got these just by entering the numbers but they
may not be what you mean. This is the first time I've heard of it. What a neat trick! ☺☺☺
29/Oct/07 6:21 PM
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Yes there are many of them, but who can remember them, also it depends where you type them, for example ALT14=♫ here but it gave me a ? in the title. And in the statement below the title when I was entering it they all looked good, but when they came up on this page most whent to ?.
29/Oct/07 6:30 PM
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For those that do not know how to get these characters: hold down the 'ALT' key while typing the numbers on the numeric key pad, then release the 'ALT' key.
29/Oct/07 6:32 PM
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1-9 ☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘○
10-19 ◙♂♀♪♫☼►◄↕‼
20-29 ¶§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔
30-31 ▲▼
128-129 Çü
130-139 éâäàåçêëèï

There are 255 of them, but many are the normal keys, eg ALT 49=1 50=2 51=3; all the numbers, punctuation, letters (upper and lower case): numbers 32 to 127 are normal ones (on you key board)
29/Oct/07 6:42 PM
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I think it would be easier if we just had a table to select them from.
29/Oct/07 6:43 PM
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ALT
140-149 îìÄÅÉæÆôöò
150-159 ûùÿÖÜø£Ø׃
160-169 áíóúñѪº¿®
170-179 ¬½¼¡«»░▒▓│
29/Oct/07 6:49 PM
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180-189 ┤ÁÂÀ©╣║╗╝¢
190-199 ¥┐└┴┬├─┼ãÃ
200-209 ╚╔╩╦╠═╬¤ðÐ
210-219 ÊËÈıÍÎÏ┘┌█
220-229 ▄¦Ì▀ÓßÔÒõÕ
230-239 More...
29/Oct/07 6:53 PM
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There you go, just copy and paste the one(s) you want. Not 240 gives nothing.
29/Oct/07 6:55 PM
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Not 240 = Note 240
29/Oct/07 6:55 PM
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##### | #####
# _ _ #|# _ _ #
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29/Oct/07 7:06 PM
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Sorry, didn't come out right
29/Oct/07 7:06 PM
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vdV if you go to http://www.chris.com/ascii/ there are some really clever examples of special character drawing, especially planes.
04/Nov/07 11:48 AM
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They are nice Lynda, a lot of thought has gone into some of them!
05/Nov/07 11:38 AM
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None of that words for me. In Word, the alt key brings up end-note (a bibliography program). But I also get no response from the alt key in the comment box or in Notepad. Is this a hardware or a software problem?
15/Nov/07 9:39 PM
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Aha! I have to press the function key as well because I am on the laptop and I should be using a numeric keyboard. ☺
15/Nov/07 10:02 PM
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BUT some of the combinations make the browser go forwards, or back, or to my home page and this happens with both Firefox and IE. Oh well, at least I can access some. ♪ ♪ ♪ ☻ ♪ ♪ ♪
15/Nov/07 10:15 PM
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For some reason, some don't work here. I'll test a few...
Alt 3 ♥ (heart)
Alt 1 ☺ (happy face)
Alt 4 ♦ Alt 5 ♣ Alt 6 ♠ (Card suits)
Alt 15 ☼ (sun)
Alt 11 ♂ (male)
Alt 12 ♀ (female)
Alt 0162 ¢ (cent)
Alt 0176 ° (degrees)
Alt 13 ♪ (musical note)
Alt 14 ♫ (double note)
Now I'll "submit" and see what happens!
06/Dec/07 8:43 AM
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As you can see, some work and some don't!
Oh well, I tried
06/Dec/07 8:45 AM
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≈⌡≈
.>>.
lemme try!
12/Dec/07 9:42 PM
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ok, one more try...
≈i≈
..>..
12/Dec/07 9:44 PM
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A couple of points have been made, but they're worth repeating.

1. On a desktop computer, use the numeric keypad, not the row of numbers at the top. And make sure the Numbers Lock is on.

2. On a laptop (or at least on mine), the numbers lock light does not have to be on. But you More...
24/Jan/08 5:29 AM
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I used to use Windows, but I had an old laptop that could only use Windows 98 SE at the highest.

I did remember that:
1. There were 2 Alt keys and they worked differently. Only the one to the right of the spacebar gave me characters.
2. Some characters:
é was Alt-e
More...
24/Jan/08 6:21 AM
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Thanks everyone who've posted above.
I found all that info very helpful and, stupid me, have often wondered how you all did it.
29/Jan/08 11:49 AM
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Jus' cuz you dont know somethin yet dont mean yer stupid, CynB.
29/Jan/08 12:07 PM
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Using a mac, from 1 through numbers then through alphabet. Still havn't found the notes, which is the ones I hoped I would find. Anyone got any advice?
02/Feb/08 11:17 AM
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elsie try this it might be what you are after.

http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/biophysics/technotes/program/ascii_ext-mac.htm
03/Feb/08 11:16 AM
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