# How do you do a "Registered" little "R" with a Circle ? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 23, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358 "2003-07-23T12:23:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/1 "2003-07-23T12:23:47Z")
How do you do a “Registered” little “R” with a Circle ? And the little “TM” for trade mark… they are sooo cool. Thx ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/2 "2003-07-23T12:32:35Z")
®: ® [sup]TM[/sup]: [sup]TM[sup] ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/3 "2003-07-23T12:33:59Z")
Sorry, that last one should be: [sup]TM[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/4 "2003-07-23T13:49:30Z")
You can also get ™ but holding down ALT and typing 0153 on _the numeric keypad_. When you let go of ALT, the ™ appears. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/5 "2003-07-23T14:03:29Z")
Well I’ll be Damned™. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/6 "2003-07-23T14:39:26Z")
If you don’t like memorizing numbers, you can also use: ™ ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/7 "2003-07-23T14:49:32Z")
["]FAQ - technical issues - please read this BEFORE posting a question]([http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1956119#post1956119](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1956119#post1956119)[/url) > [@](#): > > **Special Characters** > > For special characters, you can use the [HTML Name codes or Number codes](http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/keyboard_shortcuts.html), or use the method appropriate for your operating system. > On the Windows operating system, you can copy and paste special characters from Character Map (one of the items in the start menu). Character Map will also show you the ASCII value for that character, and you can create the character by holding down the ALT key and typing in the ASCII value on your numeric keypad. > On MacOS, you can copy and paste special characters from KeyCaps (one of the items in the Apple Menu.) Hold down the option key and the shift-option keys to see the special characters. ---
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/8 "2003-07-25T08:27:18Z")
Just Testing… &Reg &trade ---
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/9 "2003-07-25T08:28:29Z")
??? ® ™ ---
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/10 "2003-07-25T08:29:33Z")
Ah-ha. You need the “;” after the ®… Thanks all 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/11 "2003-07-25T19:13:58Z")
On a Mac: ® = option+r  = option+2 © = option+g ---
**Author:** ![BooksWoods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooksWoods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooksWoods)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/12 "2003-07-27T00:34:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*Sorry, that last one should be: > > [sup]TM[/sup] \*\* I’m just amazed that you can do that - showing the formula without it appearing already changed [sup]TM[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![BooksWoods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooksWoods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooksWoods)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/13 "2003-07-27T00:36:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tarantula \* > \*\*??? > > ® > > ™ \*\* I just figured out that if you go to “quote,” it will show the formula used by the person you are quoting. That’s even easier than trying to follow instructions. ® cool. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/14 "2003-07-27T10:09:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BooksWoods \* > \*\*I’m just amazed that you can do that - showing the formula without it appearing already changed [sup]TM[/sup] \*\* I used the ascii (or ISO or Unicode or whatever) codes to make the symbols. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-registered-little-r-with-a-circle/190358/15 "2003-08-01T21:16:40Z")
Another neat trick, and I believe this is in the FAQ, is to break up codes which would normally be interpreted as symbols or command/formatting codes with another set of codes with nothing between them. Like so. [i\*\*][**/i] would be written by doing this [i[i\*\*][**/i]][[**i][**/i]/i]. So if you wanted to show ™ as code instead of a symbol, you could write &trade[i\*\*][**/i]; and it would show up as &trade**; All these codes would normally create italics, but instead it parsed the middle piece out and tried to italicise a blank space and ended up leaving the stuff on both sides of the [i\*\*] start italics command and the [/i\*\*] end italics command. In this case the stripped out inner command set made the characters on either side come together and form a sequence which would normally be code itself, but isn’t treated as such because it technically isn’t side-by-side. Enjoy, Steven