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♫♪♫ to my ears. I ♥ unicode! To ∞ and beyond, ☺


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


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)


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.


A smart bureaucrat might mandate dynamically rewritable keys and get the Optimus http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

But smart people don't endeavor to regulate minutia.


But smart people don't endeavor to regulate minutia.

I think you just implied that all politicians are dumb. I agree.


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.unicode.org/charts/ (characters)

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)


UTF-8 can represent any Unicode character.


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


Ok, so I see infinity is U+221E(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?


Well, I went ahead and made this tool (http://utilitymill.com/utility/Display_Unicode_Char_From_Hex)

to answer my own question.


If you have a mac, Cmd-Opt-T




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