Text with Symbols

[whimsywhim]

Hello!  I have another text question.  

On business cards, especially, I see "symbols" such as horizontal lines or dots that separate a street address from the city.  When I look at the personalization, those symbols are there within the text - not separate.  They were also not imported from a designer's personal program like Adobe or PSP.  

I'm at a loss as to how this is possible.  When I enter text, I can change the font, color, size afterwards, but I can't add those symbols.  I don't even know where they are in the font choices.  

What am I missing?  

Thank you.

[PenguinPower · Accepted solution]

Many (but not all!) fonts will include a good number of symbols/glyphs. They all have a Unicode number, but really the easiest way to get them into your text is to find the symbol and copy paste it….  The Wikipedia has several tables of glyphs that you can reference. 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_glyph_set

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Glyph_List

If the font doesn’t include the glyph you want you’ll see a box where it should be. accent marks are easier- on Mac at least. Just hold down the letter and a selection of accent markings that you can choose will appear. Windows requires multiple keys and it might just be easier to go to the list…

[whimsywhim]

You are amazing!  The links you give me are always exactly what I need.  I apologize for being so ignorant, and you always having to teach me.  I need to clone you.  I can ask your clone and not have to embarrass myself continuously.  

Doesn't seem to be enough, but again, thank you very much!

Once again, 

[PenguinPower]

No worries. I've been doing this type of work for a very long time... like I've actually done layout with Lettraset (rub on) letters, Xacto knives and ruby lith (masking film), long time....  So I've got lots of stored up knowledge and I'm happy to share.

[whimsywhim]

😊

[Connie]

I certainly can’t top PenguinPower, but I just wanted to add that for the horizontal line I just use the one that’s right on the keyboard, next to the brackets. (Well, that’s where it is on my laptop. I don’t know if desktops are different.) For the middle dot I use the Character map that comes with Windows, and copy/ paste from there, but I don’t know if Mac has that too. I think it’s the same as the Wikipedia one that Penguin linked to. 

[whimsywhim]

Good grief!  You're right - that line is right there in front of my face!  Holy cow!  Thank you for your reply!  I'll be more careful in looking at my own keyboard!