computer text symbols

If you're running Windows on your Desktop PC, or Laptop (not Macbook, though) then you can use Alt codes. I'm not sure about Netbooks, but I'd recommend you read and try. Alt codes are keyboard combinations (shortcuts) to type additional symbols not available on standard keyboard layout. You can type practically all frequently used symbols with this shortcut series. Read my reference for more details.

Alt Codes Use Alt codes to make text symbols and special characters from your keyboard, or laptop. Guide for PC and laptop + full list of Alt codes. Windows alt codes and keyboard symbols on Mac and Linux. Pimp your MySpace and Facebook profiles, or create some useful text symbols like umlauts, copyright, trademark, registered sign, euro, pound, etc. right from your keyboard.

Here are Alt Codes of 2 music notes you can type with this method. Try them if you know how to make alt codes. You should remember them if you want to type notes from your keyboard with this technique some time later.

This is fastest and easiest to use. You can type any possible character, symbol, or sign from Unicode encoding with shift states. Just like you use Shift key to type capital (UPCASE) letters and special sign, you can assign more symbols to Alt and Ctrl keys.

The only problem is that it takes about 5-15 minutes to make and setup a custom layout with your desired symbols. But it's not a big problem, is it?..

You can assign all possible music symbols (♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯) and any other text characters to your keyboard with this technique.

Shift states for Windows symbols Just like with Shift key, on Windows your computer can type any wanted text symbol when you hold Ctrl, or Alt key and press some other key. Find out how to make and setup custom keyboard layouts. It's the easiest and fastest way of typing symbols.

There is a standard built-in program on Windows called "Character Map", or simply "CharMap". Using it, you can enter any possible symbol installed on your computer. That's a hell lot larger range than you can get with alt codes. Read the reference below to find out how to use it.

MS Windows Character mapType special characters and text symbols with the use of built-in CharMap program on MS Windows. ☯ 웃 ♥ 유 ♫ ♬ ✄ ✂ ✆ ✉

To make special characters with your keyboard on Mac computer you'll most likely have to use Keyboard Viewer. The character range (number of different symbols) that it gives to you is pretty wide. You can use it to see the layout of characters on keyboard for any chosen language. For example, if U.S. is selected in the Input menu, you see the characters that appear on a U.S. keyboard in Keyboard Viewer. Also, you can choose to view shortcuts for symbols and signs that are most often used, like "√ ∑ π ∞ ∆ ™ © æ £ ¢", etc.

It is easy to use and can be very helpful for some, so read my guide for mac keyboard symbols.

But! You can't type music notes with this technique. Not all symbols can be written with it. It looks, like you'll have to use character palette to make the symbols. Or just copy paste the ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯ music signs.

If you want to insert any possible text symbol into your writings, such as putting a flat note sign ♭, or heart ♥ in the middle of a sentence, you can use the Mac OS X Character Palette. This utility that lets you select symbols and special characters visually from all the text symbols installed on your computer. It's a really amazing tool, so don't miss your chance and find out how to use it on Apple Mac OS Character Palette.

This applet can really help you. It has got all the symbols, so it's got all the music signs aswell.

Apple Mac OS Character Palette Find out how you can use Mac's built-in Character Palette to insert special text symbols, characters from other languages, etc. ☀ ☃ ♡ ℃ ℬℯ ℋℰℛℰ

If we're talking about non-handy Linux device (not Android mobile), there's a really cool way to type all the Unicode symbols on your Linux system. You can type any possible Unicode character with Unicode hex codes. Read the reference I made to find out how you can do this.

With this method you can type all the music symbols and all the other possible text symbols.

There actually are 3 different ways to type symbols on Linux with a keyboard. But only Unicode hex codes can produce music symbols.

Linux keyboard: Unicode hex codes composition Learn how to enter Unicode hex code sequences on Linux OS. You'll be able to type all text symbols straight from your keyboard.

Following table contains Unicode codes of music notation characters. You'll need them for the Unicode hex codes.

Character map is a program that displays all possible text symbols. You can choose some, and copy them to where you want them to be. It can even help you with the keyboard codes I just wrote about, as you can also look up Unicode symbol codes with it.

Because, Linux has different interfaces, like KDE and GNOME, there are different charmap programs. And you can also download a java CharMap that works everywhere where Java RE is installed. Read about all of them.

Linux OS Character mapsType special symbols and text characters with the use of character map for Linux and Unix OS. ❡✽ ➦ ❥ ✪ GNOME's Gucharmap, KDE's KCharSelect Character Selector and Java character map.