porges » iec http://porg.es/blog Sun, 06 May 2012 22:13:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Symbols used to represent functions http://porg.es/blog/symbols-used-to-represent-functions http://porg.es/blog/symbols-used-to-represent-functions#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:51:22 +0000 Porges http://porg.es/blog/?p=356 I was looking for some standard symbols to represent the Control key and the Alt key, and couldn’t find one until I came across ISO/IEC 9995-7.

Because I had much trouble finding a free copy of the document on the ’Net, I have made a table of the symbols and their functions below. I have marked those not present in Unicode as �.

Some examples: copy is usually [⎈ + C] and close is usually [⎇ + F4].

Symbol Meaning/Summary
⇧ Select level 2 (AKA Shift)
⇫ Lock level 2 (AKA Shift-Lock)
⇬ Caps lock
⇭ Num lock
⇮ Select level 3
⇯ Lock level 3
⇨ Group select
⇰ Group lock
␣ Space
⍽ No-break space
⎀ Insert
⎁ Underline (continuous)
⎂ Underline (discontinuous)
⎃ Emphasize
⎄ Compose characters
⎅ Center
⌫ Delete backwards
␥ Delete
⎚ Clear screen
⇳ Scrolling (I assume this means Scroll lock)
� Help
⎙ Print Screen
⏎ Return
⎆ Enter
⎇ Alternate (Alt key)
⎈ Control (Ctrl key)
⎉ Pause
⎊ Break/Interrupt
⎋ Escape
⎌ Undo
↑ Cursor up
↓ Cursor down
← Cursor left
→ Cursor right
↟ Fast cursor up
↡ Fast cursor down
↞ Fast cursor left
↠ Fast cursor right
⇱ Home (Beginning)
⇲ End
⎗ Previous page
⎘ Next page
⇤ Tab left
⇥ Tab right
� Line up
� Line down
� Backspace
� Partial line up
� Partial line down
� Partial space left
� Partial space right
� Set margin left
� Set margin right
� Release margin left
� Release margin right
� Release both margins
+ Addition
− Subtraction
× Multiplication
÷ Division
= Equals
⎖ Decimal separator
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