# The Straight Dop? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 2, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711 "2001-08-02T23:33:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/1 "2001-08-02T23:33:15Z")
I just noticed that the big yellow and blue STRAIGHT DOPE banner is written as such **THE STRAIGHT DOPsub[/sub]E** and not **THE STRAIGHT DOPE SUB[/SUB]** What gives? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/2 "2001-08-02T23:42:12Z")
Holy Lord on the Cross of Calvary…He found out! SWARM! SWARM! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/3 "2001-08-03T00:07:54Z")
I think it just looks nicer in the design. Pepsi has always put their trademark symbol after the second P, so it appears as PEP[sub]®[/sub]SI and not PEPSI®. Either way, ® is easier to handle than “Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/4 "2001-08-03T00:09:31Z")
It’s just a graphic design t’ing, mon. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/5 "2001-08-03T01:36:58Z")
It’s just because there’s no room for it on the end. If you put the ® after the rectangular E, then you’d need to make the banner that much wider, and you’d have an empty vertical strip at the end. Under the P, though, there’s plenty of room. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/6 "2001-08-06T02:28:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\*I think it just looks nicer in the design. Pepsi has always put their trademark symbol after the second P, so it appears as PEP[sub]®[/sub]SI and not PEPSI®. > > Either way, ® is easier to handle than “Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.” \*\* how do you get that ®? I had to do a copy and paste from quoting you. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/7 "2001-08-06T02:49:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Moe \* > \*\*how do you get that ®? I had to do a copy and paste from quoting you. \*\* Alt-0174 on the numeric keypad gives: ® ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/8 "2001-08-06T18:03:21Z")
® pretty cool ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/9 "2001-08-06T20:55:32Z")
Here’s the whole ASCII extended character set. ```auto **alt + 0032 = space alt + 0033 = ! exclamation mark alt + 0034 = " double quotation mark alt + 0035 = # number sign alt + 0036 = $ dollar sign alt + 0037 = % percent sign alt + 0038 = & ampersand alt + 0039 = ' apostrophe alt + 0040 = ( left parenthesis alt + 0041 = ) right parenthesis alt + 0042 = * asterisk alt + 0043 = + plus sign alt + 0044 = , comma alt + 0045 = - hyphen alt + 0046 = . period alt + 0047 = / slash alt + 0058 = : colon alt + 0059 = ; semicolon alt + 0060 = < less-than sign alt + 0061 = = equals sign alt + 0062 = > greater-than sign alt + 0063 = ? question mark alt + 0064 = @ at sign alt + 0091 = [ left square bracket alt + 0092 = \ backslash alt + 0093 = ] right square bracket alt + 0094 = ^ caret alt + 0095 = _ horizontal bar (underscore) alt + 0096 = ` grave accent alt + 0123 = { left curly brace alt + 0124 = | vertical bar alt + 0125 = } right curly brace alt + 0126 = ~ tilde alt + 0127 =  square alt + 0130 = ‚ comma alt + 0131 = ƒ function alt + 0132 = „ low left rising double quote alt + 0133 = … ellipsis alt + 0134 = † dagger mark alt + 0135 = ‡ double dagger alt + 0136 = ˆ letter modifying circumflex alt + 0137 = ‰ per thousand sign alt + 0138 = Š capital S caron or haceck alt + 0139 = ‹ left single angle quote alt + 0140 = Œ capital OE ligature alt + 0145 = ‘ left single quotation mark alt + 0146 = ’ right single quoatation mark alt + 0147 = “ left double quotation mark alt + 0148 = ” right double quotation mark alt + 0149 = • round solid bullet alt + 0150 = – en dash alt + 0151 = — em dash alt + 0152 = ˜ small tilde alt + 0153 = ™ trademark alt + 0154 = š s caron or hacek alt + 0155 = › right single angle quotation mark alt + 0156 = œ small oe ligature alt + 0159 = Ÿ capital Y umlaut alt + 0160 = nonbreaking space alt + 0161 = ¡ inverted exclamation alt + 0162 = ¢ cent sign alt + 0163 = £ pound sterling alt + 0164 = ¤ general currency sign alt + 0165 = ¥ yen sign alt + 0166 = ¦ broken vertical bar alt + 0167 = § section sign alt + 0168 = ¨ umlaut alt + 0169 = © copyright alt + 0170 = ª feminine ordinal alt + 0171 = « left angle quote alt + 0172 = ¬ not sign alt + 0173 = ­ soft hyphen alt + 0174 = ® registered trademark alt + 0175 = ¯ macron accent alt + 0176 = ° degree sign alt + 0177 = ± plus or minus alt + 0178 = ² superscript two alt + 0179 = ³ superscript three alt + 0180 = ´ acute accent alt + 0181 = µ micro sign alt + 0182 = ¶ paragraph sign alt + 0183 = · middle dot alt + 0184 = ¸ cedilla alt + 0185 = ¹ superscript one alt + 0186 = º masculine ordinal alt + 0187 = » right angle quote alt + 0188 = ¼ one-fourth alt + 0189 = ½ one-half alt + 0190 = ¾ three-fourths alt + 0191 = ¿ inverted question mark alt + 0192 = À uppercase A, grave accent alt + 0193 = Á uppercase A, acute accent alt + 0194 =  uppercase A, circumflex accent alt + 0195 = à uppercase A, tilde alt + 0196 = Ä uppercase A, umlaut alt + 0197 = Å uppercase A, ring alt + 0198 = Æ uppercase AE alt + 0199 = Ç uppercase C, cedilla alt + 0200 = È uppercase E, grave accent alt + 0201 = É uppercase E, acute accent alt + 0202 = Ê uppercase E, circumflex accent alt + 0203 = Ë uppercase E, umlaut alt + 0204 = Ì uppercase I, grave accent alt + 0205 = Í uppercase I, acute accent alt + 0206 = Î uppercase I, circumflex accent alt + 0207 = Ï uppercase I, umlaut alt + 0208 = Ð uppercase Eth, Icelandic alt + 0209 = Ñ uppercase N, tilde alt + 0210 = Ò uppercase O, grave accent alt + 0211 = Ó uppercase O, acute accent alt + 0212 = Ô uppercase O, circumflex accent alt + 0213 = Õ uppercase O, tilde alt + 0214 = Ö uppercase O, umlaut alt + 0215 = × multiplication sign alt + 0216 = Ø uppercase O, slash alt + 0217 = Ù uppercase U, grave accent alt + 0218 = Ú uppercase U, acute accent alt + 0219 = Û uppercase U, circumflex accent alt + 0220 = Ü uppercase U, umlaut alt + 0221 = Ý uppercase Y, acute accent alt + 0222 = Þ uppercase THORN, Icelandic alt + 0223 = ß lowercase sharps, German alt + 0224 = à lowercase a, grave accent alt + 0225 = á lowercase a, acute accent alt + 0226 = â lowercase a, circumflex accent alt + 0227 = ã lowercase a, tilde alt + 0228 = ä lowercase a, umlaut alt + 0229 = å lowercase a, ring alt + 0230 = æ lowercase ae alt + 0231 = ç lowercase c, cedilla alt + 0232 = è lowercase e, grave accent alt + 0233 = é lowercase e, acute accent alt + 0234 = ê lowercase e, circumflex accent alt + 0235 = ë lowercase e, umlaut alt + 0236 = ì lowercase i, grave accent alt + 0237 = í lowercase i, acute accent alt + 0238 = î lowercase i, circumflex accent alt + 0239 = ï lowercase i, umlaut alt + 0240 = ð lowercase eth, Icelandic alt + 0241 = ñ lowercase n, tilde alt + 0242 = ò lowercase o, grave accent alt + 0243 = ó lowercase o, acute accent alt + 0244 = ô lowercase o, circumflex accent alt + 0245 = õ lowercase o, tilde alt + 0246 = ö lowercase o, umlaut alt + 0247 = ÷ division sign alt + 0248 = ø lowercase o, slash alt + 0249 = ù lowercase u, grave accent alt + 0250 = ú lowercase u, acute accent alt + 0251 = û lowercase u, circumflex accent alt + 0252 = ü lowercase u, umlaut alt + 0253 = ý lowercase y, acute accent alt + 0254 = þ lowercase thorn, Icelandic alt + 0255 = ÿ lowercase y, umlaut alt + 8217 = ’ curly apostrophe* alt + 8220 = “ open quotation mark* alt + 8221 = ” close quotation mark* alt + 8364 = € Euro symbol*** ``` - may not work in older browsers ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/10 "2001-08-06T22:15:35Z")
Thanks Unc. I had no idea this even existed. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/11 "2001-08-06T22:26:12Z")
You can also C&P any these characters from Windows Character Map; just set the font to Arial, or Courier to see your choices. You don’t necessarily need to memorize the keystrokes. ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/12 "2001-08-07T05:54:24Z")
©®¼½¾¶‡™¥ ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dop/74711/13 "2001-08-07T15:43:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by curwin \* > \*\*©®¼½¾¶‡™¥ \*\* Hey, watch your language!