How-To: Generate Currency Symbols

Recently, I saw a forum thread with an interesting topic/question get "hijacked" by a discussion about the CENTS symbol. No one was to blame; it just came up and there was confusion. As you know it happens sometimes.

For the record, here are a few currency symbols and how to generate them using the ALT key and numeric codes.

¢ ALT+0162 CENTS
£ ALT+0163 POUND
€ ALT+0128 EURO
¥ ALT+0165 YEN


Kirk

What am I missing kirks? I type ATL+0162 and get 0162?

Need to use the numeric key pad when typing the numbers (while pressing the ALT key), with the "num lock" light illuminated.

Robert

Laptop keyboard has no numeric key pad or num lock?

Windows 10 Edge None of the above works

Works fine on my Windows Edge laptop, but it has a numeric keypad. LittleRiverphil, what brand/model is your laptop?
Don

Dell Isspiron 15 7000 series I've now swithed to Internet Explorer.
No difference.

Wouldn't it be simple to add the needed symbols in with the various smileys, we could copy the one we need and paste it in place. Seems simple.

- Enable Num Lk . You may need to simultaneously press ["FN" and " Scr Lk "] keys. ...

- Hold down "Alt" key. Some laptops require you to hold both "Alt" and "FN" keys.

- Input Alt code of symbol on Keypad. ...

- Release all the keys.

Don

Nope. Sorry didn't get that keyboard either. (Duh, other side of space bar Don! (my name too) Odd, I'll continue to type cent. That also doesn't work. As soon a I press ALT the key board is unresponsive.

I use the cent sign a lot but also alt-0188, alt-0189, alt-190 for ¼, ½. and ¾.

£ ¥ $€

I have no problem generating these symbols. Of course, it probably helps that I'm on an iMac.

Keep in mine that characters on this discussion board are limited to those in the Windows-1252 character set. A list of these characters can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252.

Strangely, if I use a character not in Windows-1252, it will look OK when I preview a message, but not when I post it for real. For example, the name #1056;#1086;#1089;#1089;#1080;#769;#1103;, which is the of Russia in Cyrillic.

Personally, I use the Windows "Character Map" program to paste non-ASCII characters into my messages.

¥€H I got it!

But it does not show in "preview"

Since I create my auction listings in a word processing program I just use CTRL-M and it brings up a palate to choose a wide Variety of different characters - ¼ ½ ¾ ß àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüý¢£¥ which can then be copy and pasted just about anywhere.

Generating different language characters found on stamp is difficult since you typically have to 'remap' or change your keyboard layout to a different language (fun to do on a co-workers computer on April's Fools Day).

But at any time you can go to Stamp Smarter and at the bottom of any page is the 'World Stamp Identifier'. Click on it and then click on the 'Universal Search' button.

http://www.stampsmarter.com/

Then click on the keyboard icon to bring up a virtual keyboard as shown below...



The pop-up keyboard supports 15-20 different languages, select the language you want (you can also increase or decease the keyboard size) as shown here




Click on the characters you want and then 'copy and paste' them into Word or other app that accepts these characters. Note this forum's editor does not support foreign characters.
Don