
Additional Notes
The information on typing characters in Windows and in MS Word is not universal
but depends on the keyboard, program settings, and language mode. When using
Word, you can first try the method in column 5 (“Word”) and if it does not work, resort
to the more general methods, which are more difficult to remember.
The notation “Ctrl-Shift-6” means that you press down both the Ctrl key and the Shift
key and, keeping them down, press the “6” key. On many European keyboards, Shift-6
is the ampersand &, so for them, the combination can be described as Ctrl-&. This is
more mnemonic if you think about “Ctrl‑& A” as “A & something.” Similar notes apply
to Ctrl‑Shift‑7 (often Ctrl-/) and Ctrl-Shift-; (often Ctrl-:).
The notation “Insert →” means that the character can be inserted via the command
Insert → Symbol, selecting the Special Characters pane and clicking on the name.
Coverage
The table contains all WGL4 characters, except
• Most ASCII characters, which should not cause difficulties in typing
• Box drawing and block elements, which are rarely used nowadays
• Cyrillic letters, to save space
Note that WGL4 is the collection that you can more or less safely expect to be available
in common fonts on Windows. The table contains some additional characters, too, but
they have been annotated with “∉WGL4.” In particular, all characters for which there
are entities in HTML have been included. ...