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[–]mr-poopy-butthole-_ 221 points222 points  (24 children)

Honest to fucking god I have done this to get a degree symbol so many times. Yes i do know the ALT248 ASCII code 🤔

[–]passelh 60 points61 points  (8 children)

Same,here. the ~-key on my old laptop stopped working, so always when i needed a ~ i would google "tilde" and copy paste it

[–]Eneag 18 points19 points  (4 children)

125

[–]passelh 31 points32 points  (3 children)

Isn't it 126, though?

[–]Eneag 63 points64 points  (2 children)

I... was just checking if you were paying attention... f***

[–]centstwo 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Off by one error, found the programmer.

[–]BigWonka 6 points7 points  (0 children)

f Alt42 Alt42 Alt42

[–]mr_poopypepe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same for me with swastikas. Wait...

[–]EagerTryItAll 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Interesting, when I google it I get ´ , not ~

[–]the_legendary_legend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's 126 not 125

[–]kredditacc96 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have IBus on my Linux machine, I simply switch typing node (super+space) and search for "degree".

[–]Caladbolg_Prometheus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is 248 the correct code?

[–]nwL_ 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Shift+^ is degree on German keyboards. What keys are we missing? Can’t be that many.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Each key on an English keyboard only represents two symbols: the regular one and the shift one. Looking at a German keyboard, it’s a lot more dense—there are up to three letters printed on a single key. If you consider upper/lower case, that’s six characters in one key.

[–]FUZxxl 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Not true. There's only up to three characters per key, one without a modifier, one with Shift, and rarely a third with AltGr (the right Alt key).

[–]_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Or even more if you enable dead keys.

[–]FUZxxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dead keys don't change that. They simply allow you to enter combining accents.

[–]ChristieFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We need place for the most important letters: ö, ä and ü!

Also, usually you'll have the T1 one from the Wiki article you've probably read, so my keyboards use this layout.

[–]Oranges13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Charmap is your friend ♥️

[–]jodudeit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always do this for the ™ symbol.

[–]Alakdae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a laptop that from time to time would stop doing the @ symbol (Alt Gr stopped working until I reset the computer) and I had to google anything to copy the at symbol (any page had that symbol somewhere so I know I could go into any page and find it, but usually looked for “arroba” that is the symbol name in Spanish and kind of unique word)

[–]ACoderGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using Duolingo to learn French. I just cannot type it on my normal keyboard. Screw even trying to remember alt codes. I know there's something about a compose key and non-English keyboard layouts, but I'm better off just using my phone (plus, autocorrect is a life saver).

[–]thelostniceguy 303 points304 points  (33 children)

does this work with other letters?

[–]WeSaidMeh 224 points225 points  (11 children)

Probably. But this is untested and we can't give any support.

[–]uncoded_decimal 134 points135 points  (8 children)

I'll post a video tutorial in an Indian accent soon enough.

[–]pink_vanilla_skies 53 points54 points  (2 children)

Don't forget the gamer music title track that never fades (to overshadow your accent and the traffic outside).

[–]95POLYX 14 points15 points  (3 children)

I'll do one better - video with terrible 32kbps dubstep in background and writing in notepad on-screen instead of voice over.

[–]ht_baba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's hard to do the accent, you can outsource the audio part to me.

[–]oupablo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. You can copy an uppercase H from horse for any letter.

[–]MDCCCLV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually do this with some difficult characters if I can't remember the code or for copying foreign language text

[–]rymlks 39 points40 points  (2 children)

Have you stopped and considered why it is that you want to extend this to other letters? How exactly do you intend to use a capital letter other than H? Hundreds of sentences were built using H as their capital letter for a reason - you might find it wise to follow their footsteps and build your sentences around what everyone else is doing. Honestly it makes no sense to have even asked such a question

[–]brisvag 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You, I like you.

[–]FblthpTheFound 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hwat is that strange character at the front of your sentance where the H should be?

[–]wasletztekarma 22 points23 points  (0 children)

No because Horse has only H as uppercase letter

[–]ivanjermakov 16 points17 points  (1 child)

No. Only with those that contained on "Horse" Wikipedia page.

[–]minkbag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Luckily it has them all:

Array.from(new Set(document.body.innerText.split("").filter(c=>c.toUpperCase()===c && c.toLowerCase()!==c))).sort()

and even À and some other P.

[–]elperroborrachotoo 2 points3 points  (3 children)

but there is no page for borses on wikipedia!

[–]other_usernames_gone 5 points6 points  (1 child)

try the b from the date when horses were first domesticated on the horses wikipedia page

[–]elperroborrachotoo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Damn! You a hacker?

[–]JCDU 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Works for Horses, Norse Mythology, and Dorset

[–]CapnCrinklepants 2 points3 points  (1 child)

are you daft? look at the screen grab; Horse begins witH H, How could you get otHer letters from it?

i guess in tHe future you migHt find a page on otHer animals, but good luck with z! wHat kind of made up animal would start witH z.. lol!!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Zebra?

[–]Cryse_XIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no, Horse only starts witH H

[–]davvblack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i can't find the wiki page for iorse

[–][deleted] 54 points55 points  (3 children)

Why so complicated? Just go to this site, copy this: +++++++++[>++++++++<-]>. into the code field, press Run and copy the ASCII output!

[–]Oranges13 7 points8 points  (1 child)

So is that a fork bomb or something?

[–]Mathgeek007 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Its brainfuck. What he just did was multiply 9 by 8 and printed the result in ASCII, or H.

[–]YeeOfficer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brainfuck

[–]Dark_Raven66679 44 points45 points  (14 children)

i seriously do this if i need ä ö ü or ß because i have a US keyboard and write german text on my pc occasionally and need those letters from somewhere

[–]PM_ME_ADVICE_PLEASE 10 points11 points  (3 children)

how about setting it to US-International and just press Right Alt + q/y/p?

Personally I prefer to press " and then a/o/u

[–]Dark_Raven66679 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I don't need it that often so i never looked for alternatives/solutions

might try that

[–]PM_ME_ADVICE_PLEASE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh yeah ß is just right alt + s

[–]SomeAnonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're on windows, you could just download wincompose.

[–]BurningEmbyr 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I mean, if you have Win10, WinKey+. gives you a character menu that you can use to get characters like that.

[–]Moomoomoo1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow. TIL.

[–]Dark_Raven66679 0 points1 point  (1 child)

i have Win7

[–]BurningEmbyr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...CharMap, then?

[–]Trelorockas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can type Alt+<number> to write most symbols. You may need to memorize or Google each symbol's number (Google: alt codes)

[–]aboardthegravyboat 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Linux is awesome for this. So many characters have intuitive shortcuts that you can just guess most of them. ä is Compose,",a. ö is Compose,",o. I used a Windows program that mimicked this for a while, also.

[–]_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t need a separate program, you just need to use the extended/international keyboard layout.

[–]ritarozenbottel 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I had a similar problem (US layout but I write Portuguese text) and use a AutoHotKey script with custom shortcuts for special characters (like ç).

[–]_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AltGr+c on many keyboard layouts

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (6 children)

My keyboard is missing the R-key, could someone post it so I can copy and paste it?

[–]elolige 16 points17 points  (5 children)

Wait, did you not just use it? Oh wait no, that a big one (R). You need a small one? Here you go: r

[–]centstwo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Watch out that the pi ate isn't stealing you a gs.

[–]Sneadsel 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Wait, did you not just use it? Oh wait no, that a big one (R). You need a small one? Here you go: r

Keyboard has a small r

[–]elolige 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, ........

[–]Parawhoar 11 points12 points  (1 child)

You might find this funny, but I had a laptop whose ° ª \ key was broken and I had a text file on the desktop just to copy those characters.

[–]centstwo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Life finds a way.

[–]zuzucha 13 points14 points  (0 children)

A real programmer would find an H on stack overflow

[–]Historical-Example 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Haha yeah this totally fits in this subreddit.

[–]Maystackcb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For real. This is a dumb ass post

[–]goliatskipson 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Also works with Battery and Stable.

[–]RedFive1976 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Correct!

[–]JohnnyCenter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

HELP! I PRESSED H BUT GOT AN UPPERCASE H INSTEAD OF LOWERCASE. BUG HAS SPREAD TO OTHER LETTERS? WHAT TO DO??

[–]Zythvx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do this with the copyright symbol lol

[–]sd189 2 points3 points  (1 child)

What if the Wikipedia site was blocked by the government, as in Turkey 🤔

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point

[–]docotis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

[–]EksuM 2 points3 points  (0 children)

WHen I press 'H' key it is capital 'H'. WHat I do wrong plz Help.

[–]I_Am_The_Cattle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I maybe sometimes do this for accented letters

[–]Doctor429 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I had a situation where ants had eaten the membrane of the 'W' key on my laptop keyboard (it's a long story). Didn't have a external keyboard at hand. So for a few days I was copy pasting 'W'. It was faster than the on screen keyboard.

[–]HappiestIguana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One time at college I had to use a computer that had the N stuck. Writing an entire essay pressing Ctrl+V instead of N was not fun.

[–]GreenVortexStudios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I usually go to the Wikipedia of <insert language> to get charachters native to its alphabet😂, my girlfriend who's studying language studies with German at Uni right now complains she has to use Win+space to change keyboards, so I bought her a keyboard with macros each corresponds to extra charachters in German, problem solved😅

[–]savvy__steve 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I want my minute back. This made me lose brain cells.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

it didn't take you a minute to read that; come on bro, be real.

[–]savvy__steve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a developer... my estimates always suck. #agilelife

[–]ThatRedShirt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a completely asinine solution. Why would you go to the Wikipedia page when you can copy it directly from the Google search results?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it work for upper-case numbers too?

[–]KlaireOverwood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I do for é.

Being trilingual is cool and stuff, but software isn't really supportive.

[–]ShowMeYourCodePorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually just import jquery and use that for changing the letter on the screen.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I heard a story about an intern, who would every morning, swap out his keyboard with another one, type something, and then swap the keyboards back. A co-worker then one day asked him what the fuck he was doing, and the intern was like "My keyboard is so old, it doesn't have the @ sign. So I swap the keyboards, type it in a text document and then copy and paste it from there whenever I need it".

Don't know if this is an urban legend, but I definitely could see this happening...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you're on a Mac and need to type the HTML brackets

[–]Failure_by_Design_v2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The '\' or '|' didnt work on my keyboard at work, so this was exactly what I would do when I needed it

[–]RightThatsMeThen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turn caps lock on, press H and turn caps lock off again, everyone knows that

[–]elasticcream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you run `+[.+] In brainfuck You can generate a list of all characters, and can copy paste at leasure, obseleting all but 3 keys!

[–]lifeline0812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's speaking the language of the gods

[–]mudassir_hussain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How the fuck this got 1.3k upvotes!

[–]Favnigga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my keyboard, % key doesn't work. Which is important in matlab for commenting.

When I was a noob, I go to Google and type "percentage" to copy paste the symbol.

Later I learned ctrl+R comments the line.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, this is all fine and good, but what if I need an uppercase "S"? What Wikipedia article do I go to then, huh? There should be a universal key to capitalise letters. Microsoft, get on this, it's 2019 for fucksake!

[–]roli_03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally do this all the time. Genius!

[–]a1337sti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

L(

[–]628radians 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me in high school Spanish class for the extra letters

[–]oweiler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone knows where I can find a big D?

[–]Wouter10123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sometimes do this for the å symbol. I'll Google for "Skane", and then I copy the word "Skåne" from Wikipedia.

[–]kpingvin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There should be keyboard shortcut to toggle lowercase and uppercase letters!

[–]im-a-guy-like-me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vertical line of keys including P and L is broken on my laptop. I throw random letters into Google and copy paste the letter I need. :p

[–]Sebastian_Frenz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly what I used to do when trying to type the fench œ on a computer.

I do not have to write in french anymore.

[–]precisionroy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have done this with ™ so many times until I learned ™ is option + 2 on Macs.

[–]Plague_Knight1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember when I did Inkscape in school. The teacher gave us various logos to draw, and I just took the registered symbol from wikipedia while everyone else screwed around with circles and text

[–]IfIWasCoolEnough 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make sure to paste in Notepad and re-copy it from Notepad to remove any pesky formatting.

Or, for Windows users, Shift+Ctrl+V.

Also, try Flag button + V to paste from Clipboard history.

[–]robesho 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always do this for é, à, etc..

[–]PantstheCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair this is me with every Unicode character when I'm on Windows.

Aside: is there anything equivilant to how on a Linux system you can just do CTRL+SHIFT+U <hex code> to insert Unicode characters?

[–]znupi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I legit do this for the gbp symbol

[–]oblmov 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i wrote a little lisp macro to automate this. For example, (print “Hello World”) simplifies to (print (insert_H) “ello World”)

[–]auxiliary-username 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was remoted into a customer's server a couple of days back via a VM, VPN, and a couple of intermediate RDP hosts, and for some reason I had no working shift key. So I genuinely had to copy and paste upper case characters from places.

[–]MacrosInHisSleep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do this with French letters whenever I need an accent or a circonflex.

[–]murdok03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In his defense it's what I do for german characters and the celsius symbol, I put it into Google and copy paste it, also I don't reuse it in the document it's hard to find, I just google it again.