I’ve never known what the picnic table ⌅ character referred to until I stumbled upon it recently in a Textmate bundle. It turns out to be the “Enter” key (FN+return if you’re on a macbook), which is a keystroke I almost never use. I’ve also needed to include modifier keys in documentation, but haven’t known the unicode character equivalents. This is a handy reference for mapping a symbol with the HTML character entity (from which you can also derive the Unicode character.)
| Symbol | Modifier Name | HTML Entity |
|---|---|---|
| ← | Left Arrow | ← |
| ↑ | Up Arrow | ↑ |
| → | Right Arrow | → |
| ↓ | Down Arrow | ↓ |
| ⇥ | Tab | ⇥ |
| ⇤ | Back Tab | ⇤ |
| ⇧ | Shift | ⇧ |
| ⌃ | Control (ctrl) | ⌃ |
| ⌥ | Option (alt) | ⌥ |
| ⌘ | Command (cmd) | ⌘ |
| ↩ | Return | ↩ |
| ⌅ | Enter | ⌅ |
| ⌫ | Backspace | ⌫ |
| ⌦ | Delete | ⌦ |
| ⎋ | Escape | ⎋ |
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