Typing with Alt Codes (2024)

Typing Special Characters with Alt Codes

To use an Alt code, press and hold down the Alt key and type the code using the numeric key pad on the right side of your keyboard. If you do not have a numeric keypad, copy and paste the symbols from this page, or go back try another typing method.

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Accented Letters

Grave	À 0192	È 0200	Ì 0204	Ò 0210	Ù 0217
	à 0224	è 0232	ì 0236	ò 0242	ù 0249
Acute	Á 0193	É 0201	Í 0205	Ó 0211	Ú 0218	Ý 0221
	á 0225	é 0233	í 0237	ó 0243	ú 0250	ý 0253
Circumflex	Â 0194	Ê 0202	Î 0206	Ô 0212	Û 0219
	â 0226	ê 0234	î 0238	ô 0244	û 0251
Tilde	Ã 0195			Õ 0213		Ñ 0209
	ã 0227			õ 0245		ñ 0241
Umlaut	Ä 0196	Ë 0203	Ï 0207	Ö 0214	Ü 0220	Ÿ 0159
	ä 0228	ë 0235	ï 0239	ö 0246	ü 0252	ÿ 0255

Additional Characters

Character	Description	Code
¡	Beginning exclamation mark	0161
¿	Beginning question mark	0191
Ç, ç	French C cedille	0199, 0231
Œ,œ	O-E ligature	0140, 0156
ß	German Sharp/Double S	0223
º, ª	Masculine Ordinal Number (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) Feminine Ordinal Number	0186, 0170
Ø,ø	Nordic O slash	0216, 0248
Å,å	Nordic A ring, Angstrom sign	0197, 0229
Æ, æ	A-E ligature	0198, 0230
Þ, þ	Icelandic/Old English Thorn	0222, 0254
Ð, ð	Icelandic/Old English Eth	0208, 0240
« »	Double angle quotation marks	0171, 0187
‹ ›	Single angle quotation marks	0139, 0155
Š š	Czech S hachek (S Caron)	0138, 0154
Ž ž	Czech S hachek (Z Caron)	0142, 0158