It was written in 2005, but I found it still useful.
However, the toolbar icon mentioned in that page was not found in Office 2010.
Below is another method for identifying the computer encoding number associated with a character one has but does not know.
In Windows 7, there is Private Character Editor (eudcedit.exe), which can be started from search box of Start menu. It requires administrative permissions to run.
Once opened,
- Select an empty box to open a character editor.
- Make sure in upper left, Character Set selected is Unicode
- Select on the menu Edit, then Copy Character
- Click in the Shape box to activate.
- Paste in a single unknown character of interest from the Windows clipboard, and the numeric code should be listed above it in hexadecimal.
This was the easiest way I found to identify non-ASCII characters.
The two characters I was looking for were ° (0x00B0) and ℃ (0x2103).
To go from number to display of character to copy, charmap.exe is the program I recommend using.
