# Test for Unicode characters/odd symbols **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965 "2020-01-25T19:10:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/1 "2020-01-25T19:10:50Z")
Trying to get a generic “music note” to show in a post. ```auto 1D15C ``` Well that didn’t work. Can anyone tell me what’s go8ng on with this page on Unicode, or if I should care for this task? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/2 "2020-01-25T19:15:09Z")
Cx: this page–[🎵 𝄞 🎸 𝄫 🎷🎶 🎻Music Note Symbols](https://www.alt-codes.net/music_note_alt_codes.php) Would’ve eta’d it but SD timed out/died on save of previous save…about which see other current thread 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/3 "2020-01-25T20:55:38Z")
Emoji: ������ ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/4 "2020-01-25T21:02:36Z")
Plain old ASCII codes? Just as a matter of interest, for the standard set. HTML codes? How do I get vBull to go with this flow? Can its programmers – the elves who I believe somebody from here talks to [separate question, can ignore] do it only, or at all? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/5 "2020-01-25T21:22:43Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Emoji: �� I get just box/?s on different browsers. 🤷 👎 🎵 🎼 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/6 "2020-01-25T21:35:41Z")
In MS Word, click on the following for instructions to insert characters: [https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office\_2010-word/how-to-insert-musical-symbols-in-ms-word-2010-plus/17ebbf96-0ae7-4866-a961-8b51af9e7833?auth=1](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/how-to-insert-musical-symbols-in-ms-word-2010-plus/17ebbf96-0ae7-4866-a961-8b51af9e7833?auth=1) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/7 "2020-01-25T21:54:53Z")
Enter 1D100 in the Character code to get to music notation. (Gregorian chant is several lines below that on the character table). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/8 "2020-01-25T23:01:51Z")
Nm ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/9 "2020-01-27T06:52:41Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Crossbreed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Crossbreed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crossbreed)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/10 "2020-01-27T10:16:50Z")
For boards w/o HTML support, I just copy/paste from my list of favorites at [Studio 126 News: Symbols Used at Studio 126...](http://studio-126.blogspot.com/2015/08/Symbols.html) § ⊕ ⎈ ☄ ♐ ✨ 🎬… (Some characters do not work in all places.) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/11 "2020-01-27T10:29:06Z")
🔴 ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ∝ 🎼 🎵 🎶 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-for-unicode-characters-odd-symbols/846965/12 "2020-01-27T10:42:53Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > 🔴 ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ∝ 🎼 🎵 🎶 All of those look muscal here, except for the first one, which looks like a sign for a [SC](https://www.robertfmoss.com/features/Why-Do-South-Carolina-Liquor-Stores-Have-Red-Dots) [liquor](http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/red-dots/) [store](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22red+dot+store%22&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjE0fziy6PnAhUFBs0KHfbmCl4Q_AUICCgD&biw=408&bih=646).