Unicode

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Unicode symbols

Frequently used symbols:

Symbol Unicode
(hex)
Unicode
(dec)
Keymap (linux be) HTML
entity
Unicode
name
LaTeX
0x2190 8592 ^AltGr-Y ← Leftwards Arrow \leftarrow \gets
0x2191 8593 ^AltGr-Shift-U ↑ Upwards Arrow \uparrow
0x2192 8594 ^AltGr-I → Rightwards Arrow \rightarrow \to
0x2193 8595 ^AltGr-U ↓ Downwards Arrow \downarrow
0x20D6 8406 Combining Left Arrow Above
0x20D7 8407 Combining Right Arrow Above
0x2208 8712 ↓ Element Of \in
0x2209 8713 ↓ Not An Element Of \notin
0x220A 8714 ↓ Small Element Of \smallin

(LaTeX symbol name from package unicode-math)

How to find Unicode symbols:

  • shapecatcher.com - unicode character recognitiondraw the symbol with the mouse to find it!
  • In Gnome, see character maps (gucharmap) to get unicode hex code.
  • In KDE, try KDE Character Selector (KCharSelect).
  • In Windows, try Character Map. Use Search for field to search characters with matching description (click Advanced view)

Using Combining symbols:

  • TBC

Reference:

Tips

Inserting Unicode symbols in Linux

These are similar to Windows' Alt-key code.

  • Ctrl-Shift-u, followed by unicode hexadecimal code while maintaining Ctrl-Shift (see [1])
Ex Ctrl-Shift-ue7 for ç, Ctrl-Shift-ue8 for è, Ctrl-Shift-ue9 for é...
  • In Gnome, see character maps (gucharmap) to get unicode hex coce.
  • In KDE, try KDE Character Selector (KCharSelect).