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What is this character and how did you make it appear? Þ (I used copy & paste but I mean on a keyboard)
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back to computer techniques 101... i think its a thorn, (its used in german, if i am not mistaken.. but no matter someone will know..)
as for how you make one..
what type computer do you have?
Window 95 or 98, go to Start-->Run--> (and type in )charmap it will open a window with your font set. (a menu window at top will allow you to chose an font.) the complete font will be displayed, in some cases, there will even be as scroll bar.
select any character (click on it) on the lower right hand corner of the window, there will be a key code.
hold the Alt key (usually) and use the numeric keypad on the right side of the key board (not the numbers above the letters) type in the key code.
voila
Alt + 0182 (and yes, the zero is needed)in Arial gives you ¶
Alt + 0198in Arial gives you Æ as in Ætna, or Æsop, Þ is Alt + 0222 in many fonts...
if you have a Windows 2000 machine, the char(acter)Map can be found on Start-->Programs-->accessories-->
if you have a Mac, ask AnnaStrophic or Jazzo...
these directions should be copywrited!©
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if you have a Mac, ask AnnaStrophic or Jazzo...
If you have a Mac and want a thorn you're up the creek. Well, maybe, if you've got the right font up you can get it but if it ain't in KeyCaps fuhgeddaboudit.
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there's a wonderful mac freeware app called Font Explorer which is the best I've found(and I've looked  ). you can find it here: http://pages.infinit.net/trottier/fexpl.htmlunfortunately, I don't find the thorn in any of the standard fonts... 
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This site looks to be chock-full of places to retrieve Mac thorns. Odd that my Mac fonts include the eth (which doesn't reproduce here) but not the thorn. You gotta be careful to choose one that'll reproduce both in word-processing and on websites. I'm still digging through it all. The best bet seems to be to download Icelandic character code. http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/oe-fonts.html
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Thorn, pronounced like 'th' in the word 'thorn', and eth (crossed 'd') pronounced like 'th' in 'there' were used in Old English, or Anglo-Saxon. This is the standard pronunciation in the West Midland dialect of OE, which is more or less the standard, since that's the one that got written down most often. In other dialects thorn and eth might have been pronounced the opposite way, or both the same. I believe they are also used in Icelandic.
There is no 'th' sound in German. Some words used to be spelled with 'th', like the verb thun which is the spelling in the Luther Bible, but the 'th' was pronounced like 't' and since the beginning of the 19th century, the 'th' has been replaced by 't', so the verb is now spelled 'tun'.
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