Questions tagged [character-map]
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How do I "unzoom" the currently selected character in Windows Character Map?
When I launch the Windows character map, it looks like this:
When I click on a character to select it, it looks like this:
Notice that the zoomed in view of the ± character obscures the ° to the left and the ² to the right.
So how do I get it to…
quanticle
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Alternative symbol for dot/period/full stop that will work at the end of a folder name?
I'm looking for an alternative period sign that will work at the end of a folder name.
It's not super important, but in my music organizing there is an album title that is stylized with a period at the end and it can't show this in Windows. This…
PJS1987
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How can I view all characters in Segoe UI Symbol, in Babelmap or character map? (particularly 1F381) Characters past FFFF
I notice that Character Map goes up to FFFF nothing beyond.
It doesn't go as far as 1F381
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f381/index.htm
Unicode Character 'WRAPPED PRESENT' (U+1F381)
But if I look up 1F381 in babelmap, it shows that…
barlop
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How can I find the Alt KeyCode for a glyph with the Windows system tools?
How can I find the Alt KeyCode of a particular glyph (special character) using any standard utility that ships with Windows (or a ?command line statement?)?
I understand this might seem like a duplicate of Find Alt Code for any Character
However, as…
XyberICE
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Dingbats appears to be missing from windows 11
I was trying to put a check mark in an excel sheet today, which should be U+2713, and it showed up briefly in the special characters menu before disappearing entirely, and dingbats does not seem to be in the Microsoft character map any longer. I was…
Alex B
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Is the dataset that underpins the Windows Character Map utility accessible somewhere on the system?
The Windows Character Map utility displays the glyphs available in the chosen font, along with the Unicode codepoint and a name for a selected character. Is the dataset that underpins this utility read-accessible on the system somewhere?
Tim
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I need to re-enable a key I disabled but forgot how I disabled it
Along time ago, I was broke and had to use a broken keyboard (more likely I was being a stubborn idiot, but I digress). I don't remember the details, but the keyboard was broken in such a way that I had to totally disable the backslash/bar key. I…
