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How do I make the infinity? Actually where do I get all those symbols?

eusman 19y ago
http://www.unicode.org/charts/ http://www.unicode.org/charts/ (characters) http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html (geometrical shapes etc) As I understand only UTF-8 is supported, so forget characters for UTF-16 and UTF-32 (but you rarely need these anyway)
- docmach 19y ago
  UTF-8 can represent any Unicode character.
  - deleted 19y ago
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  - eusman 19y ago
    yeah i confused that with ISO 10646 (has the 3 levels which specify unicode, not all levels support the same characters) and UCS2, which UCS2 is essentially UTF-16, so i meant if he used any characters bytecoded in UTF-16 essentially he'd have a problem, although utf-8 doesnt support certain octets. UTF-8/16 were not yet part of the standard before UCS version 2.0. Been a while I guess since i got updated
erydo 19y ago
You have to buy a unicode keyboard. They have over 95000 keys and take up about nine square meters. Hope you have a big desk. (Sorry, I couldn't resist)
- pg 19y ago
  You know, that would actually be an amusing hardware-hacking project. If you made a keyboard that had every character in every language spoken in the EU, you could even file to make it a standard with whatever earnest standards body is in charge of such things. No linguistic minority should have to use control keys! It would be like giving peanut butter to a dog.
  - ivankirigin 19y ago
    A smart bureaucrat might mandate dynamically rewritable keys and get the Optimus http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ But smart people don't endeavor to regulate minutia.
    - Xichekolas 19y ago
      But smart people don't endeavor to regulate minutia. I think you just implied that all politicians are dumb. I agree.
mdemare 19y ago
If you have a mac, Cmd-Opt-T
gojomo 19y ago
I used WindowsXP 'Character Map' accessory for the ♫♪ and ♥. I think I copied and pasted the ∞ and ☺ from http://www.bigbaer.com/sidebars/entities/ http://www.bigbaer.com/sidebars/entities/ .
tocomment 19y ago
Ok, so I see infinity is U+221E(http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/221e/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/221e/index.htm), now how do I go from that to posting it on a forum like this?
- tocomment 19y ago
  Well, I went ahead and made this tool (http://utilitymill.com/utility/Display_Unicode_Char_From_Hex http://utilitymill.com/utility/Display_Unicode_Char_From_Hex) to answer my own question.

http://www.unicode.org/charts/ http://www.unicode.org/charts/ (characters) http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html (geometrical shapes etc) As I understand only UTF-8 is supported, so forget characters for UTF-16 and UTF-32 (but you rarely need these anyway)

docmach 19y ago
UTF-8 can represent any Unicode character.
- deleted 19y ago
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- eusman 19y ago
  yeah i confused that with ISO 10646 (has the 3 levels which specify unicode, not all levels support the same characters) and UCS2, which UCS2 is essentially UTF-16, so i meant if he used any characters bytecoded in UTF-16 essentially he'd have a problem, although utf-8 doesnt support certain octets. UTF-8/16 were not yet part of the standard before UCS version 2.0. Been a while I guess since i got updated

erydo 19y ago

You have to buy a unicode keyboard. They have over 95000 keys and take up about nine square meters. Hope you have a big desk. (Sorry, I couldn't resist)

pg 19y ago
You know, that would actually be an amusing hardware-hacking project. If you made a keyboard that had every character in every language spoken in the EU, you could even file to make it a standard with whatever earnest standards body is in charge of such things. No linguistic minority should have to use control keys! It would be like giving peanut butter to a dog.
- ivankirigin 19y ago
  A smart bureaucrat might mandate dynamically rewritable keys and get the Optimus http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ But smart people don't endeavor to regulate minutia.
  - Xichekolas 19y ago
    But smart people don't endeavor to regulate minutia. I think you just implied that all politicians are dumb. I agree.

mdemare 19y ago

If you have a mac, Cmd-Opt-T

gojomo 19y ago

I used WindowsXP 'Character Map' accessory for the ♫♪ and ♥. I think I copied and pasted the ∞ and ☺ from http://www.bigbaer.com/sidebars/entities/ http://www.bigbaer.com/sidebars/entities/ .

tocomment 19y ago

Ok, so I see infinity is U+221E(http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/221e/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/221e/index.htm), now how do I go from that to posting it on a forum like this?

tocomment 19y ago
Well, I went ahead and made this tool (http://utilitymill.com/utility/Display_Unicode_Char_From_Hex http://utilitymill.com/utility/Display_Unicode_Char_From_Hex) to answer my own question.