Alternative to Character Map
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Alternative to Character Map
Does anyone know of an alternative to the built-in Character Map app in Windows?
I have difficulty finding special characters when scrolling through the displays. I would really like to have a quasi-AI version that would allow me to type in a search argument which the AI would interpret a la google searches and return a suggested set of characters.
Anyone know of such an animal?
I have difficulty finding special characters when scrolling through the displays. I would really like to have a quasi-AI version that would allow me to type in a search argument which the AI would interpret a la google searches and return a suggested set of characters.
Anyone know of such an animal?
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
The Character Map accessory does have a limited search function:
You'll find some alternatives at Alternatives to Character Map
You'll find some alternatives at Alternatives to Character Map
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
Thank you, Hans.
I had not noticed the check box for advanced view. Even with it, I can't find 'inverted exclamation point' .
My Character Map Accessory doesn't look like yours. What are you using? I'm on Win 10 Pro.
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I had not noticed the check box for advanced view. Even with it, I can't find 'inverted exclamation point' .
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
You also need to remember that each font may, can and will have different characters!
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
No wildcard search (that I can see), but it does sport a cumulative Copy!
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
Type inverted exclamation and press Enter. The official name is inverted exclamation mark
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
Yay! For once the Noble and British origin of the English language prevails!
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¡Si!
Me encanta el idioma inglés
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
Thank you, Hans!
We colonials must have lost touch with the Mother Tongue. I have always heard the exclamation character called a 'point' and the question character a 'mark.'
The sentence above raises the question of the usage of the first person plural pronoun, 'we,' as an adjective. Is this correct or incorrect usage?
We colonials must have lost touch with the Mother Tongue. I have always heard the exclamation character called a 'point' and the question character a 'mark.'
The sentence above raises the question of the usage of the first person plural pronoun, 'we,' as an adjective. Is this correct or incorrect usage?
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
English is not my mother tongue, but it appears to me that "we" is the subject of the sentence, not an adjective...
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
I am going to have to think about this.
In the sense that we might ask "Which colonials are we talking about", where the answer is "the two of us", then "we" would function as an adjective.
On the other hand if we remove the word "colonials", then yes, "we" appears to be the subject of the sentence.
English is famous/notorious for its gerunds, where a verb is transformed into a noun by adding "ing", and verbs can act as nouns can act as adjectives.
We need a new smiley - :hornets nest:
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P.S. NIgel Molesworth was well-versed in gerunds
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
When I worked for ICL(UK) in Adelaide, the vewy-bwitish managers called "!" a shriek.
And "#" was a hash, or a pound; I forget which.
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
Verbing weirds language...
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
That sounds like US English to me, not British EnglishChrisGreaves wrote: ↑01 Oct 2020, 21:13When I worked for ICL(UK) in Adelaide, the vewy-bwitish managers called "!" a shriek.
And "#" was a hash, or a pound; I forget which.
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
Could be, Stuart, could be.
We were, after all, a polyglot mob assembled from all sorts of foreign countries, including New Zealand.
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
The "!" character is also commonly called a "bang". My favorite use of that term is in "An ASCII Poem".ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑01 Oct 2020, 21:13When I worked for ICL(UK) in Adelaide, the vewy-bwitish managers called "!" a shriek.
Also, the character "‽" (U+203D in Arial Unicode) is an interrobang.
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
Thanks Jay <bang>Jay Freedman wrote: ↑03 Oct 2020, 04:06The "!" character is also commonly called a "bang". My favorite use of that term is in "An ASCII Poem". Also, the character "‽" (U+203D in Arial Unicode) is an interrobang.
Both "bang" and "interrobang" come back to my mind now that you mention them.
I never cease to be amazed at the truly weird sites and items that Eileen's Lounge Members, throw up, in a manner of speaking, but Jay, in your case, I'll make an exception!
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Re: Althernative to Character Map
I think your Rhotacismic Manager was probably referring to a shrike...ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑01 Oct 2020, 21:13When I worked for ICL(UK) in Adelaide, the vewy-bwitish managers called "!" a shriek.
And "#" was a hash, or a pound; I forget which.
The sole and only positive thing about Twitter is that is has fixed the meaning of the # character to be 'hash[tag]'. In the UK this symbol was also called 'number sign', 'musical sharp', 'gate' and, by the very esoteric, 'octothorpe'. This hash-tag usage seems to have relegated the North-American 'pound sign' to history.
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Re: Alternative to Character Map
The unicode charts website has an alphabetic index of character names.