Significance Markers

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Typographical symbols that can be used to indicate significant differences on a graph:

Note that there are many different html entities as defined by w3/org.

This utility for Unicode Conversion is useful for getting decimal or utf-8 code of a unicode character.

Also Graphemica is a nice looking typographical site for looking up characters.

Note that many symbols come in half-width and full width forms. The half/full-width are located in Unicode block from U+FF00 to U+FFEF, but may not be displayed properly if Asian fonts are not installed.

When specifying in Xynk, should try to convert keyboard symbol to bigger (fullwidth) equivalent for display.

i.e., *#+° should be converted to ✻#+O




Symbol & Name Unicode Decimal UTF-8 HTML Mac Keys
Used in Xynk
teardrop-spoked asterix U+273B ✻ E2 9C BB
dagger (obelisk) U+2020 † E2 80 A0 † option-t
double dagger (diesis) U+2021 ‡ E2 80 A1 ‡ shift+option+7
multiplication sign U+2715 ✕ E2 9C 95
full width plus U+FF0B + EF BC 8B
# number sign U+0023 # 23 #
white star U+2606 ☆ E2 98 86
O big O U+004F O 79 O
§ section U+00A7 § C2 A7 § option+6
pilcrow U+00B6 ¶ C2 B6 option+7
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Some other symbols
* asterisk U+002A * 2A *
heavy asterisk U+2731 ✱ E2 9C B1
full width asterix U+FF0A * EF BC 8A
math asterix U+2217 ∗ E2 88 97 ∗
+ plus U+002B + 2B +
full width number U+FF03 # EF BC 83
° degree U+00B0 ° C2 B0 ° shift-option-8
white circle U+25CB ○ E2 97 8B
half width white circle U+FFEE ○ EF BF AE
white diamond U+25C7 ◇ E2 97 87
reversed pilcrow U+204B ⁋ E2 81 8B
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