How to get special Characters in the Charcoal font.

This information was provided by Claris Corporation on 16 March 1998, and incorporated into Apple Computer's Tech Info Library.

Hidden Charcoal Characters

Back in the old days, it was possible to generate such keyboard characters as the Command and Option key symbols only with the Chicago font. Thankfully, these symbols - and more - are available in OS 8's Charcoal font as well. Using the Charcoal font type the following key combinations to get these obscure characters:

Control-q = Command symbol
Control-g = Option symbol
Control-w = Backward Delete symbol
Control-j = Forward Delete symbol
Control-d = Shift symbol
Control-y = Up Arrow symbol
Control-p = Down Arrow symbol
Control-z = Right Arrow symbol
Control-x = Left Arrow symbol
Control-t = Apple symbol