Legal Alt Codes

The copyright, registered trademark and trademark signs, plus the related legal and reference marks.

This group holds 4 characters. They are scattered from U+00A7 to U+2122, 8,316 codepoints apart, because they were added to Unicode at different times and for different reasons. They are drawn from Latin-1 Supplement (3), Letterlike Symbols (1) in the Unicode Standard, which is what decides how each one is encoded and how software sorts and compares it.

Most of the traffic to this group is for ™, © and §. The phrase people type for the first of those is tm alt code, which is worth knowing if you are looking for it under another name.

Most of them, 3 of the 4, come from Latin-1 Supplement: the accented letters and common signs Western European languages needed. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from 2 of them. The rest come from Letterlike Symbols.

Every one of them has a Windows Alt code that works on any keyboard with a numeric keypad.

Of the 4, 4 have a Mac shortcut of their own. Everything else in this drawer is reached by copying it or by its codepoint, which works in every application on every system.

1 have a compatibility decomposition, which means NFKC normalisation rewrites it into something plainer and a search box may not return what was pasted into it.

Every character below copies with one click. Each one also has a guide page with its Windows, Mac and HTML route written out.

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