How do you do the special characters?

[Phanes]

I am thinking about making 4x shammies and naming them all using the special characters. You know like the a with hat symbol over it. I found something on line that said like Ctrl + 1 + 2 will give you characters but it does not seem to work in the WoW naming interface. I notice alot of guys here do it. So how exactly do you do it?

[Svpernova09]

http://www.perlscriptsjavascripts.com/js/ascii_codes.html

[Rin]

If you're using Windows XP/Vista/Win 7 ->

Start->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map

Copy and paste the characters that you want to use (Note: not all characters that you see in the Character Map will be available on WoW, but most of them are).

EDIT: Also, when you double click on a special character in the Character Map, the Keystroke will appear on the bottom right-hand pane (e.g. for an a with a circle over it, the Keystroke is ALT+0229. You're going to want to make a note of any special characters that you have in your character names so that other people will be able to easily contact you. If you go into WoW and type ALT+0229, you'll notice that nothing happens. To get the character to show up, you'd type ALT+0229 and then hit another key (spacebar or any key will work).)


Cheers.

[wowphreak]

Hit numlock hold alt down type on the number pad.
And yeh get nifty things like ????????? â èÜó

[sojolly]

I use alt-codes .. you hold down the alt key and use the numberpad keys. http://www.alt-codes.net/

Sojólly <-- alt-162

[Phanes]

Thanks for the feedback.