Armand Philippot

Typography with Unicode

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I write a lot in a code editor and sometimes I forget which combination allows me to write the desired character with Unicode. So, here is a quick summary that fits my needs.

With Linux, we need the following combination Ctrl + Shift + u to enter the alphanumeric code after U+.

  • Typographic apostrophe: U+2019
  • Non-breaking space: U+00A0
  • Narrow non-breaking space: U+202F
  • Ellipsis points: U+2026
  • Left quotation mark: U+00AB
  • Right quotation mark: U+00BB
  • Em dash: U+2014