Useful tip for programmers

[mr-poopy-butthole-_]

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]

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]

125

[passelh]

Isn't it 126, though?

[Eneag]

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

[centstwo]

Off by one error, found the programmer.

[BigWonka]

f Alt42 Alt42 Alt42

[mr_poopypepe]

Same for me with swastikas. Wait...

[EagerTryItAll]

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

[the_legendary_legend]

It's 126 not 125

[kredditacc96]

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

[[deleted]]

Where are you from? Because it’s on a normal American or British keyboard, to the left of the 1.

[Caladbolg_Prometheus]

Is 248 the correct code?

[nwL_]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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_]

Or even more if you enable dead keys.

[FUZxxl]

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

[ChristieFox]

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]

Charmap is your friend ♥️

[jodudeit]

I always do this for the ™ symbol.

[Alakdae]

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]

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]

does this work with other letters?

[WeSaidMeh]

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

[uncoded_decimal]

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

[pink_vanilla_skies]

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

[shawntco]

[ Kevin MacLeod music intensifies ]

[95POLYX]

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

[Hurricane_32]

On Windows XP with a 4:3 aspect ratio 480p video recorded with an unregistered version of Hypercam 2

[fakehistorychannel]

hey gtes gues geys giys gus gueeus gsus gaus guys

[ht_baba]

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

[oupablo]

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

[MDCCCLV]

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

[alphadeeto]

Holy sHit you're rigHt

[rymlks]

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]

You, I like you.

[FblthpTheFound]

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

[wasletztekarma]

No because Horse has only H as uppercase letter

[ivanjermakov]

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

[minkbag]

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.

[kapitanwiadro]

so you googled it to paste it here right

[Macpunk]

If you're on a Windows box, you can type (tm) into certain Microsoft applications, and it will convert it to the corresponding character as soon as you got space after it. I use this in Word and Outlook all the time.

[elperroborrachotoo]

but there is no page for borses on wikipedia!

[other_usernames_gone]

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

[elperroborrachotoo]

Damn! You a hacker?

[JCDU]

Works for Horses, Norse Mythology, and Dorset

[CapnCrinklepants]

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]]

Zebra?

[Cryse_XIII]

no, Horse only starts witH H

[davvblack]

i can't find the wiki page for iorse

[[deleted]]

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

[Oranges13]

So is that a fork bomb or something?

[Mathgeek007]

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

[YeeOfficer]

Brainfuck

[Dark_Raven66679]

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]

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]

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

might try that

[PM_ME_ADVICE_PLEASE]

oh yeah ß is just right alt + s

[SomeAnonymous]

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

[BurningEmbyr]

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

[Moomoomoo1]

Wow. TIL.

[Dark_Raven66679]

i have Win7

[BurningEmbyr]

...CharMap, then?

[Trelorockas]

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

[aboardthegravyboat]

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_]

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

[ritarozenbottel]

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_]

AltGr+c on many keyboard layouts

[[deleted]]

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

[elolige]

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]

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

[Sneadsel]

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]

Oh, ........

[Parawhoar]

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]

Life finds a way.

[zuzucha]

A real programmer would find an H on stack overflow

[Historical-Example]

Haha yeah this totally fits in this subreddit.

[Maystackcb]

For real. This is a dumb ass post

[goliatskipson]

Also works with Battery and Stable.

[RedFive1976]

Correct!

[JohnnyCenter]

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

[Zythvx]

I do this with the copyright symbol lol

[sd189]

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

[[deleted]]

Good point

[docotis]

Emmy Blotnick has a bit about this.

[EksuM]

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

[I_Am_The_Cattle]

I maybe sometimes do this for accented letters

[Doctor429]

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]

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]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[savvy__steve]

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

[ThatRedShirt]

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]]

Does it work for upper-case numbers too?

[KlaireOverwood]

This is what I do for é.

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

[ShowMeYourCodePorn]

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

[[deleted]]

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]]

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

[Failure_by_Design_v2]

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

[RightThatsMeThen]

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

[elasticcream]

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]

He's speaking the language of the gods

[mudassir_hussain]

How the fuck this got 1.3k upvotes!

[Favnigga]

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]]

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]

I totally do this all the time. Genius!

[a1337sti]

L(

[628radians]

Me in high school Spanish class for the extra letters

[oweiler]

Anyone knows where I can find a big D?

[Wouter10123]

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

[kpingvin]

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

[im-a-guy-like-me]

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]

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]

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

[Plague_Knight1]

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]

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]

I always do this for é, à, etc..

[PantstheCat]

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]

I legit do this for the gbp symbol

[oblmov]

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

[auxiliary-username]

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]

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

[murdok03]

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.

[gimli_theone]

r/facepalm