How do you type the measurement symbol for micro?

Question

on a standard keyboard how would you type this, I am not sure if it's an alt key combo but if it is I'm not finding the numbers to make it work, 10pts to the first one who lets me know
thx

Answer 1

Hold the ALT key, and type 230 on the numeric keypad then release ALT. You'll get the mu symbol "µ"

Answer 2

On my Linux system i can type meta-/-u for µ, meta-e-' for é etc. which makes sense if you think that

ç is a c with a comma underneath.



it varies depending on which character set you are using. I presume the previous answers are for UTF-8 on Windows. But there are still some websites and computers out there using other charsets, like ISO-8859-1 Western European, or JIS in Japan, Big5 etc. in China, so it's still not guaranteed that what one person sees is what the other person sent. Most blogs & websites will set the character set explicitly, so once you upload your document, what you see on your web browser is what others should see, too.

Answer 3

Perfect answer from "I don't think so," give that person best answer!



As an aside, if you ever need a symbol like µ or ¢ you can always go to http://www.alt-codes.net/ , and cut-and-paste the one you want.

Answer 4

People whose machines won't generate the "right" character for the "mu" often type a lower-case U -- um for microns, us for microseconds, uA for microamps, and so on.

Answer 5

alt-230 = µ