typing arrows in plain text?
In plain text (as opened in emacs, gedit, ...), how can I type up and down arrows? I type the up arrow in two lines, as "^" above "|", where aligning them is very inconvenient. I don't know how to type down arrow.
I typed left arrow as "<-" and right arrow as "->". Is it the best way we can do?
Thanks.
72 Answers
Type arrows by copy/pasting the Unicode characters in the first column of the below table.
You can also type an HTML entity in the third column and it will render as the appropriate arrow character.
You can also press the Ctrl+Shift+u keyboard combination which will print a u character on the screen. Then after the u type one of the 4-digit hexadecimal codes in the second column and press Enter to render the u+4-digit hexadecimal number that appears on the screen as the appropriate arrow character.
| Character | Hex | HTML Entity |
|---|---|---|
| ← | 2190 | ← |
| ↑ | 2191 | ↑ |
| → | 2192 | → |
| ↓ | 2193 | ↓ |
| ↔ | 2194 | ↔ |
| ↕ | 2195 | ↕ |
| ↖ | 2196 | ↖ |
| ↗ | 2197 | ↗ |
| ↘ | 2198 | ↘ |
| ↙ | 2199 | ↙ |
HTML entities for mdash and ndash (for long dashes) are — and –
HTML entities for less than and greater than characters are < and >
Press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type the hexcode of the character, then press Enter.
Hex codes for arrows:
| Symbol | Hex Code |
|---|---|
| ← | 2190 |
| ↑ | 2191 |
| → | 2192 |
| ↓ | 2193 |
| ↔ | 2194 |
| ↕ | 2195 |
| ↖ | 2196 |
| ↗ | 2197 |
| ↘ | 2198 |
| ↙ | 2199 |
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