Cuggie says:

Thank you, I love your site. I always learn something new and useful. That’s a good thing for this old brain.
cuggie

John Shelton says:

I have a desktop shortcut to simplify access to the character map, but even that is quite complicated to get to when needed. It would be very helpful to be able to assign specific character map items to a certain function key or have some keyboard shortcut to specific characters. I dream of typing – 75° – in three routine keystrokes. Or typing – 3½ – in two keystrokes. (My goodness, even my old mechanical typewriter had this capability) If there is a registry hack or some third party software that would make this possible, it would be of great benefit to me and surely many other readers.

Perhaps I can mention another pet peeve of mine without getting off topic. The U.S. cent symbol is not even present in the character map (or standard U.S. keyboard). There should be a way to describe 32 cents without using the dollar sign ($0.32) or without spelling out “cents”.

Perhaps this issue would make a worthwhile future article????

John

eyore says:

John there is a ¢ sign in the character map. Set the font to arial … a check in advanced view …character set – (windows western) and group by (all) It will be in the 4th column and 7th row.