> is to click once on the character you want in the character map. Look in the lower right hand corner of the char. map. You'll see something like: "Keystroke Alt-0191" holding down the alt key and typing in 0191 on the numberpad will make that keystroke without you having to cut and paste. If you use a certain character a lot, such as an en or em dash, which is used a LOT in typesetting, it's handy to know the alt codes so you don't have to keep calling up the stupid char map every 4 seconds.
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> > > How do you get them from there to an email or a forum? I think I tried that a long time ago and it didn't work. I was trying to use that little upside-down question mark that goes before the quesion in Spanish. Please note that I am a little short on computer savvy.
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> > In Character Map, double-click the accented character you want, and then click the Copy button. Then, to paste that symbol into your message, hit [Ctrl]+[V] in your web browser.
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> > -- codeman"€ôðé?äñ"38

I almost always have Microsoft Word open, so I go into that, click Insert, Symbol, and then double-click on whatever symbol I want. I then close the Insert box, copy the symbol out of Word, and paste it into the forum. For symbols I use a lot, like Ä, ä, Ö, ö, Ü, ü, and ß for German homework, I've assigned special shortcut keys in Word.

I always thought it was a shame that people don't use diacritics and other alphabetical oddities, like the umlaut in naïve or the œ in amœba, even though technically they're supposed to. Sigh.

-æric "Sigh." sleatör
Mon 7 Aug A.D. 2000