Using the Unicode characters that aren't on our keyboards
A big keyboard might have almost 100 individual keys. Fewer than 50 of these are letters, numbers, and punctuation. At least a dozen are function keys that do things other than simply insert letters into a document. Some of the keys are different kinds of modifiers that are meant to be used in conjunction with another key—for example, we might have Shift, Ctrl, Option, and Command.
Most operating systems will accept simple key combinations that create about 100 or so characters. More elaborate key combinations may create another 100 or so less popular characters. This isn't even close to covering the vast domain of characters from the world's alphabets. And there are icons, emoticons, and dingbats galore in our computer fonts. How do we get to all of those glyphs?
Getting ready
Python works in Unicode. There are thousands of individual Unicode characters available.
We can see all the available...
