Musical Notes
How to display musical notes without images. (ASCII)
The quarter note: ♩ which is ♩
The eighth note: ♪ which is ♪
The single bar note: ♫ which is & #9835;
The double bar note: ♬ which is & #9836;
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I have changed my Keyboard language, from Us English, to Us-Englsh-International.
To avoid trying to memorize all these codes.
And it is really cool, just press right ALT, and go thruogh the keyboard, from the numbers down, and you can get many of these ASCII characters, and with a combination of other keys, you can get some more.
However, now my keyboard language doesn’t do all these musical notes characters.
Anybody know how to do them in US-English-International???
On systems with codepage 437 [US English] its #266A and #266B [Type the chars '266A' in wordpad/word and press CTRL+X]
Shaunak, that you for the extra tip on this!
Just testing it out.
& #9835
Billy,
WordPress and many other software packages will filter out characters such as this when submitted within a form.
This is a very useful tip. I have been using musical notes in some work lately, just as decorations, but I have been using graphics. Being able to simply use ASCII keeps my work much smaller and simpler!
A bit of pendanticness: these characters aren’t ASCII, they are Unicode. ASCII ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii ) is oldskool and doesn’t include all that many characters. Unicode, on the other hand, has all sorts of cool stuff like ? and ?, as well as practical stuff like Japanese, Chinese, Cyrilic, musical symbols and mathematical symbols.