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Wingdings. Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows from version 3.1 [ 4] until Windows Vista/Server 2008, and also in a number of application packages of that era. [ 5] The Wingdings trademark is owned by Microsoft, [ 4] and the design and glyph order was awarded U.S. Design Patent D341848 in 1993. [ 6]
Control character. In computing and telecommunications, a control character or non-printing character ( NPC) is a code point in a character set that does not represent a written character or symbol. They are used as in-band signaling to cause effects other than the addition of a symbol to the text.
Nonprinting characters or formatting marks are characters for content designing in word processors, which are not displayed at printing. It is also possible to customize their display on the monitor. The most common nonprintable characters in word processors are pilcrow, space, nonbreaking space, tab character etc. [ 1][ 2]
ASCII ( / ˈæskiː / ⓘ ASS-kee ), [ 3]: 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices.
Latin-1 SupplementorC1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement. The Latin-1 Supplement (also called C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement) is the second Unicode block in the Unicode standard. It encodes the upper range of ISO 8859-1: 80 (U+0080) - FF (U+00FF). C1 Controls (0080–009F) are not graphic. This block ranges from U+0080 to U+00FF, contains 128 ...
Alt code. On personal computers with numeric keypads that use Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows, many characters that do not have a dedicated key combination on the keyboard may nevertheless be entered using the Alt code (the Alt numpad input method ). This is done by pressing and holding the Alt key, then typing a number on the ...
In many popular fonts the Unicode "superscript" and "subscript" characters are actually numerator and denominator glyphs. Unicode has subscripted and superscripted versions of a number of characters including a full set of Arabic numerals. [ 1] These characters allow any polynomial, chemical and certain other equations to be represented in ...
In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents ). Unicode also contains many precomposed characters, so that in many cases it is possible to use both combining ...