Last year, I purchased a Chromebook, and one of the first things I realized at the time was that I had no idea how to type special characters with it, such as the degree symbol (°).
I did a bit of research, and I discovered that the trick is using the Unicode for each character. Just type Ctrl+Shift+u at the same time, release them, type in the 4-character unicode, then press the space bar.
So for the degree symbol (°), for example, type Ctrl+Shift+u at the same time, release them, type 00B0 (the 4-character unicode for the degree symbol), then press the space bar.
Watch the video below to see it in action:
Here is a table showing the characters I typed in the video:
| Character name | Symbol | Unicode |
| em dash | — | 2014 |
| en dash | – | 2013 |
| left single quote | ‘ | 2018 |
| right single quote | ’ | 2019 |
| left double quote | “ | 201C |
| right double quote | ” | 201D |
| degree symbol | ° | 00B0 |
| cent sign | ¢ | 00A2 |
Visit How to properly type 8 popular punctuation marks to see how to type them on a Mac or a PC.
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