Friday, June 19, 2009

Useful characters and keys

Whilst writing code, comments or designs I often find these characters helpful, for example I often use "↑" to indicate "increase", so I can write "adding more servers ↑availability" or "homepage: ". They should all be unicode characters...

Useful characters
‹›«»
←↑→↓↔↕
$¢£¤¥€
½

‥ (two dot leader) … (ellipsis)
¡¿
§¶º†‡ (text markers)
– — ― (en, em, bar dashes)
™©®℅№
Numbers
¼ ½ ¾
⅓ ⅔
⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞

° degree
Logic
≈ approx equal
≡, ≠ identity
¬, negation not
≤≥
∆ increament
Maths
∏ (product)
∑ (summation)
√ (root)
∂ (partial differential)
ⁿ (super n)
Bullets
■□▪▫○●◘◙◦
⌂ house! 

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