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:::[[Unicode input]] is only concerned with methods to input characters given their Unicode code points. The dagger has a decimal code point of 8224, so a technique recommended by the article, when corrected, will be to enter {{keypress|Alt|8}}{{keypress|2|2|4|chain=}}. This works and, so far as I know, is independent of the code page. Yes, there <u>is</u> another technique, one relying on CP1252, but that in no way invalidates the technique, properly stated. Agreed, the user following the CP1252 procedure has not "created a Unicode code point" — code points are numbers, according to [http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#C the Unicode standard] and numbers are not created entities. Does U+0086 not encode a <u>valid</u> character? It's not a printable character, but it does lie within the subject matter of the Wikipedia [[Unicode control characters]] article, so there's certainly a case to be made for its being a character, specifically one designating "[[Wikibooks: Unicode/Character reference/0000-0FFF|Start of Selected Area]]".
:::"How about the Euro Symbol {{char|€}}?", you ask. Same point: properly updated, {{section link|Unicode_input#Decimal_input}} will tell us, correctly, that it can be produced by {{keypress|Alt|8}}{{keypress|3|6|4|chain=}}. Curly quotes? {{keypress|Alt|8}}{{keypress|2|1|6|chain=}} through {{keypress|Alt|8}}{{keypress|2|2|3|chain=}}. Also macrons, such as the combining macron {{keypress|Alt|0}}{{keypress|3|0|4|chain=}}, which does have a leading zero. Greek and Cyrillic, such as {{char|α}} {{keypress|Alt|0}}{{keypress|9|4|5|chain=}} and {{char|Д}} {{keypress|Alt|1}}{{keypress|0|4|4|chain=}}. And Japanese characters, like {{char|侮}}, requiring five decimal digits: {{keypress|Alt|6}}{{keypress|4|0|4|8|chain=}}.
:::[[User:Peter M. Brown|Peter Brown]] ([[User talk:Peter M. Brown|talk]]) 02:19, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
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