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Sam RoseMade a dumb website so I wouldn't ever have to Google "tm symbol" again.
Happy to take PRs: https://github.com/samwho/symbol.wtf
sofakante@samwho most googled “symbol” on my end: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Joan't Stop Me Now 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️😷@sofakante @samwho These two are pretty much 50-50 for me.
Arne Mertz@samwho @clickhere @sofakante or http://copyshrug.com (or, since I use it almost exclusively when chatting on the phone, I have a special autocomplete for it)¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jos Dingjan@samwho @sofakante I’ve set up &shrug; to expand to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wherever I can.
@happydisciple @samwho I’ve szs (SchulterZuckSmiley german for shoulder shrug smiley) to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
jpanhans@sofakante @samwho this is the first symbol I looked for
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Brendan (he/him)@samwho hi Sam! Just a thought - would it be worth separating each symbol out to its own line, in the source code, to make PRs easier? And less likely to cause conflicts with other PRs?
I’m happy to do a PR for that change, if you think it’s a good idea.
Deb has moved! (see profile) 🇨🇦
BackAlleyUrbanist@samwho This is great! New bookmark!
My usual approaches, depends on the character I need:
- Google "[character I need name]”, find Wikipedia site, read about the history of typesetting em dashes, rabbit hole into eventually reading about some random topic
- Open word and use the "Symbol" menu (usually if I'm already in word
- Windows key + spacebar to change my keyboard layout to Portuguese, then key combos. Ironically I've never figured out ? in PT so I switch back to EN
- Character map
Jason Parker (he/they)@samwho Obviously, this has gotten a ton of PRs.
I think merging PR-29 will make adding new characters a lot easier and it adds some nice search functionality. If that gets merged, I (or somebody else) can create a PR that combines and supersedes all of the other addition requests.
That should make your life a lot easier.
Eli the Bearded@samwho Can I just ask for em-dash without a PR? I have it handy on my phone but not my computer : —
Aral Balkan@samwho This is really useful; thanks for making + sharing it. Will save me lots of time on iOS :)
PS. In case it helps (I really need to update this as I’m using a programmable keyboard more these days but still…) It’s not just for Linux as the title says as I use the Mac layout on Linux.
https://ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical-typing-habits-for-linux/
Typographical typing habits for Linux
Many of our bad habits date back to the limitations of typewriters. Typography lends us the voice that the written word takes away from us. Good typography makes your message accessible and comprehensible and strengthens its intent. Bad typography can have the opposite effect: it can cloud your meaning and give you a raspy voice. I first started making an effort to write using semantic typographical habits about six years ago.
Hugh@samwho Could you add GBP to it? 👀 I use ANSI layouts which don't have that key, but it's actually quite useful in the UK turns out... 
@hugh alt+3 gets me there with £ but added it for you as well <3
Cato [MOVED]@samwho can you add ¤, œ/Œ and æ/Æ? i keep searching them way too often
edit: i can just make my own too why did i never think of that
@samwho inb4 this just becomes a list of all unicode characters
antler5
1000millimeter@1000millimeter @samwho unspecified currency
@1000millimeter @samwho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign_(generic)
also, via the "see also" section I found the "pillow" symbol (⌑) and its use in ancient travel agency software as shown here: https://eportal.travelport.com/sites/GSWS/SiteCollectionDocuments/SGC/Portal/Documents/TrainingDocs/CourseBooks/CBPart1G360.pdf
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CJ Dunn@cato Hello! I'm super curious what you are using the ¤ (currency sign, U+00A4) for! I'm a typeface designer and I always include this glyph in my typefaces, but I've also read that it isn't used much these days. So I'd LOVE to hear how it is currently being used to make sure we design it to work well for contemporary use cases. TYSM!
@cjtype hey, kinda have to disappoint you there, but I use it basically just for an occasional inside joke between a friend and I which is kimda hard to explain ^^''
@cato ah I see! thank you for the response : )
it's definitely one of the glyphs that we include because it's part of a pre-unicode standard and there's a slot for it. but it really might not be used for anything besides your inside jokes and maybe ascii art/kaomoji
¯\_(▰¤︹¤▰)_/¯
Martin 🪷 Schmitz
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diogot@samwho tm symbol is `option+2`™
@diogot oh my fucking god ™
@samwho but I still don't know how to do the superscripted 2, like square.
BlueThulium@BlueThulium @samwho for º I use `option + 0`
Anton 🌻@samwho option+semicolon for …, long press for accents https://osxdaily.com/2017/03/22/type-accents-mac-easy/
@zemlanin brother you think long press on this ergodox is giving me accents? pls
hayalci
Sohan Subhash@samwho If you’re on macOS, the built-in character viewer is another fast way to search for symbols. https://nshipster.com/character-viewer/
Sarah Scully 👩🏼💻⚖️📚☸️ 🏳️🌈@samwho Thank you for your service!
Joe Crawford@samwho Please don't listen to the thoughtless persons reminding you about how to use the damn Option and Alt key. Your website is perfect and excellent domain name too.
@artlung haha, thank you 😄 it’s been nice hearing about how other people do this. I’m almost certainly going to just use symbol.wtf because I’ll forget all of it.