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All characters that may be bullet points (e.g. "*") or "dash" points

Answer 1

+5 A:

In unicode there are lots. How about:

Black left pointing index: U+261A ☚
Black right pointing index: U+261B ☛
White left pointing index: U+261C ☜
White right pointing index: U+261E ☞

just for a quick example. Heck, there is a whole range dedicated to various kinds of arrows (2190–21FF), which can easily be used as bullet points. I guess you can start to browse unicode code pages - there are a lot of characters out there, though. I expect you'll have a hard time finding everything anybody might use.

Carl Norum 2010-06-25 18:53:17

Answer 2

+3 A:

I've seen +, >, and # used to indicate bullet points.

Michal 2010-06-25 18:53:43

Answer 3

+1 A:

Even ordinary windows, code-page characters like: º+·˙̣·۰۠۟۟•▪■□►●○▬─
can be used -- Especially if CSS is used to size and position them.

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Also, pretty much the same significance as a bullet point, but ordered, is outline notation:

1.
2.
2.1
2.1.A
2.1.B
etc.

Brock Adams 2010-06-25 19:01:52

Answer 4

+1 A:

Dashes have a Unicode category of Pd. As of Unicode 5.2, there are 21 of these characters:

U+002D - HYPHEN-MINUS
U+058A ֊ ARMENIAN HYPHEN
U+05BE ־ HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF
U+1400 ᐀ CANADIAN SYLLABICS HYPHEN
U+1806 ᠆ MONGOLIAN TODO SOFT HYPHEN
U+2010 ‐ HYPHEN
U+2011 ‑ NON-BREAKING HYPHEN
U+2012 ‒ FIGURE DASH
U+2013 – EN DASH
U+2014 — EM DASH
U+2015 ― HORIZONTAL BAR
U+2E17 ⸗ DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
U+2E1A ⸚ HYPHEN WITH DIAERESIS
U+301C 〜 WAVE DASH
U+3030 〰 WAVY DASH
U+30A0 ゠ KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN
U+FE31 ︱ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL EM DASH
U+FE32 ︲ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL EN DASH
U+FE58 ﹘ SMALL EM DASH
U+FE63 ﹣ SMALL HYPHEN-MINUS
U+FF0D － FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS

Bullets are a lot more complicated, as the others have mentioned.

dan04 2010-06-27 22:12:18

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