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How to insert special symbols in Yahoo Answers?

Apparently Yahoo answers is no longer accepting html symbol codes like π for the greek character pi. Anyone know why? And what's the easiest way of inserting special character codes now?

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  • 6 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Presuming you are using Windows, you can use any character from Arial Unicode, applying "Select" and "Copy" from Character Map - then paste (Ctrl V)

    If you don't have Characeter Map on start menu, you can find it at

    %SystemRoot%\system32\charmap.exe

    %SystemRoot% is your Windows folder

    i.e:

    C:\Windows\system32\charmap.exe

    Like:

    π = PI

    Δ = Delta

    ★ = Star

    You can insert any arabic, hebrew, hindi, japanese, chinese etc. letter or some of those weird accents used by vietnamese. ANY UNICODE CHARACTER!

    UNICODE IS PROVIDED BY MICROSOFT OFFICE but if you don't have it, you can download from

    https://tuanphamvu.googlecode.com/files/Arial%20Un...

    .

    ANY QUESTION? Use Comment

  • 6 years ago

    Works for me: π

    Of course, I'm on Linux, so I can just press `U' to insert Unicode, or C-x 8 RET to select a Unicode character by name. π ダ䇐㤀

  • Jeff P
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    You mean like this: π

    Works just fine for me. Are you sure you entered the code correctly?

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