Alt code - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_codeOn IBM PC compatible personal computers from the 1980s, the BIOS allowed the user to hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. It would place the corresponding code into the keyboard buffer so that it would look (almost) as if the code had been entered by a single keystroke. Applications reading keystrokes from the BIOS would behave according to what action they associate with that code. Some would interpret the code as a command, but often it would …
Alt code - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alt_codeWhen Windows later transitioned to Unicode, there was a desire to extend the Alt codes to allow entry of any Unicode code point. Numbers greater or equal to 256 pick the corresponding Unicode code point (lower numbers continue to pick characters from the OEM or ANSI code pages, but if 0 is prefixed the ANSI code page greatly resembles the first ...
ALT Codes for Special Characters, Signs & Symbols
altcodeunicode.comALT Codes with leading zeroes (ALT 01 – ALT 0255) produces special characters and symbols based on Windows Code Page 1252 (CP-1252) or Windows-1252. Code Page 1252 is based on ASCII. It is a strict superset of ASCII wherein the first 128 codes are ASCII. Historically and erroneously, Windows Code Page 1252 was also referred to as an “ANSI ...
Alt Codes List of Alt Key Codes Symbols
www.alt-codes.netMake sure you switch on the NumLock, press and hold down the Alt key, type the Alt Code value of the degree symbol 0 1 7 6 on the numeric pad, release the Alt key and you got a ° degree symbol. ** Above mentioned procedure is not aplicable for MacOS. For more information on how to use symbols, emojis please check our How to use Alt-Codes? page.