I'm looking for a good character that means "end-of-story" in unicode. I remember seeing one once that looked like a fractal and was really cool. Does anyone know where I can find this character? More importantly, where can I go to find a unicode character with a special meaning when I don't know it's names? Google wasn't very helpful.
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Are you using Windows? Use the Character Map (Start | Accessories | System Tools). I personally like the Greek Omega (U+03A9) or the Ohm sign which is an Omega (U+2126).
squillman
2009-04-22 03:42:01
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Go and have a look at the unicode.org code charts. You can browse through them and find a character that you like by what they look like. http://www.unicode.org/charts/
Alternatively, browse through the names of the characters using the data file that has the official character name. Do a search using your browser or editor search function. http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt
When you find a character that you want to see what it looks like, just do a search for the character code. e.g. character 0087 (the first field in the UnicodeData.txt file) is searched as U+0087. FileFormat.info usually has all of the characters. For example, END OF SELECTED AREA.
brofield
2009-04-22 03:44:47
Um, I'm sorry to sound pathetic, but I'm pretty new here and the upvote / answer buttons seem to be missing. They disappeared. They aren't near your answer any more. Which is a shame, because I'd like to give you an upvote. I must missing something obvious, but I can't find those buttons. Do you know what's going on?Thanks.
Nate
2009-04-22 03:53:28