How to generate none-keyboard ASCII characters with your keyboard!
The ASCII table is made of 255 characters, each specified by an ASCII code. A number of this characters have their own button on the keyboard, these would be the alphabet, Numbers, Signs, Numpad numbers, punctuation marks, and basic keyboard elements (Alt, Ctrl, Enter, F1..F12 Esc) and some extra keys depending on the keyboard. There are also some other characters in the ASCII table that are accessible through programming and programs like "Character Map". These characters may look different in different fonts, operating systems, or machines. Here I'm going to introduce a trick to generate those characters with your every day standard keyboard.

• Open up your favorite Text editor, I'm using Notepad (Basic text editor for Windows)
• Make sure the "Num Lock" LED is on and your numpad keys type numbers
• Hold down the ALT button
• With out releasing ALT, press the "2" button on the NumPad
• With out releasing ALT, press the "1" button
• Let go!

You should get the "§" character.
This time, try it again your self, try different combinations!
Keep in mind that ALT + single key only return "?". You can even use ALT + triple key combinations!! try ALT+4+8+6, and you will get µ.
Remember that this trick is order-sensetive: ALT+4+8+6 return µ, ALT+6+8+4 returns ¼.
Once you are trying different combinations, you may also find keyboard characters, that is because this trick works for the whole table.

The pattern
Try 6+5, you will get "A", now notice the ASCII code for "A" is 65!. The only thing you have to do is to dial the ASCII number you like
In cases like 66, hold ALT, punch 6 two times and then release ALT. It doesn't however, work for characters less than 32
Please notify me if you found a new pattern:
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