Windows alt codes letters

Note: this does not include the many, many characters from non-western European languages — otherwise it would be ,s of codes long. It took me a while to assemble all of these get them looking good. As a developer, when I search for these codes I often get results that are image-based.

These are inaccessible to people with visual disabilities, and make it hard for everyone to copy-paste the codes. The first 31 alt codes are dedicated to fun characters like happy faces, arrows, and other common symbols:.

As I mentioned earlier, you can use Alt codes to type characters you could otherwise type on your keyboard. This is helpful if one of your keyboard keys is non-operational. The next few Alt codes are focused on currencies, with a few Spanish-specific characters as well. And of course, you can type the Greek letters using alt codes.

The system which interprets this action and places the corresponding character at the cursor's location is BIOS. These codes became so popular so that Microsoft, even though developed a new set of codes, decided to keep them.

Three-digit codes represent the OEM codes. Codes with a preceding 0 represent the new ANSI codes. Control character - horizontal tabulation HT.

Inverse white circle. Control character - line feed LF. Male sign, mars, alchemical symbol for iron. Control character - vertical tabulation VT. Female sign, venus, alchemical symbol for copper. Control character - form feed FF. Eighth note, quaver. Control character - carriage return CR. Beamed eighth notes, barred eighth notes, beamed quavers. Control character - shift out SO. White sun with rays. Control character - shift in SI. Black right-pointing pointer. Control character - data link escape DLE.

Black left-pointing pointer. Control character - device control one DC1. Up down arrow. Control character - device control two DC2. Double exclamation mark. Control character - device control three DC3. Pilcrow sign, paragraph sign. Control character - device control four DC4.

Section sign. Control character - negative acknowledge NAK. Black rectangle. Control character - synchronous idle SYN. Up down arrow with base. Control character - end of transmission block ETB. Upwards arrow. Control character - cancel CAN. Downwards arrow. Control character - end of medium EM. Rightwards arrow, Z notation total function. Control character - substitute SUB. Leftwards arrow. Control character - escape ESC.

Right angle. Control character - file separator FS. Left right arrow, Z notation relation. Control character - group separator GS. Black up-pointing triangle.

Control character - record separator RS. Black down-pointing triangle. Control character - unit separator US. Exclamation mark, factorial. Quotation mark. Number sign, pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe. Percent sign. Left parenthesis, opening parenthesis. Right parenthesis, closing parenthesis. Asterisk, star. Plus sign. Comma, decimal separator.

Hyphen, minus sign. Full stop, period, dot, decimal point. Solidus, slash, forward slash, virgule. Digit zero. Digit one. Digit two. Digit three. Digit four. Digit five. Digit six. Digit seven. Digit eight. Digit nine. Less-than sign. Equals sign. Greater-than sign. Question mark. Commercial at, at sign. Latin capital letter A.

Latin capital letter B. Latin capital letter C. Latin capital letter D. Latin capital letter E. Latin capital letter F.

Latin capital letter G. Latin capital letter H. Latin capital letter I. Latin capital letter J. Latin capital letter K. Latin capital letter L. Latin capital letter M. Latin capital letter N. Latin capital letter O. Latin capital letter P. Latin capital letter Q. Latin capital letter R. Latin capital letter S. Latin capital letter T. Latin capital letter U. Latin capital letter V. Latin capital letter W. Latin capital letter X. Latin capital letter Y. Latin capital letter Z. Left square bracket, opening square bracket.

Reverse solidus, back slash. Right square bracket, closing square bracket. Circumflex accent. Low line, underscore. Grave accent. Latin small letter a. Latin small letter b. Latin small letter c. Latin small letter d. Latin small letter e. Latin small letter f.

Latin small letter g. Latin small letter h. Latin small letter i. Latin small letter j. Latin small letter k. Latin small letter l. Latin small letter m. Latin small letter n.

Latin small letter o. Latin small letter p. Latin small letter q.