About this tag
The characters tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about fictional characters in games, mods, and artwork. Topics include characters from the Fallout: London total conversion mod for Fallout 4, whimsical illustrations of capybaras and foxes, horror-style characters, and vintage cartoon figures. The tag also includes technical queries about special characters and symbols, such as finding a specific character for a Schmitt trigger gate symbol in fonts. These threads explore character design, representation, and usage across gaming, creative media, and technical contexts.
  1. kemical

    Discover Fallout: London - A Total Conversion Mod for Fallout 4

    A new free mod for Fallout 4: Fallout: London In typical imperial British fashion, Fallout: London will take over your Fallout 4 installation. Installing Fallout: London will make irreversible changes to the default Fallout 4: GOTY Edition installation. You’ll also need to disable cloud saves...
    • kemical
    • Thread
    • characters cloud saves dlc factions fallout 4 fallout london gameplay gaming gog installation london mods open world quest rpg steam team folon total conversion voice weapons
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
  2. whoosh

    ART Skateboard Burger Man

    :razz:
    • whoosh
    • Thread
    • art illustration burger cartoon characters cheeseburger creative concept fantasy giantburger humorous illustration pop art rider skateboarding skates surreal art waterfront whimsical art woodenburger
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  3. whoosh

    ART A Capybara On The Moon

    :)
    • whoosh
    • Thread
    • artwork astronaut astronomy capybara characters cosmos cute digital art galaxy galaxyart illustration moon moon landing planet planetary science rocket sci-fi space space art whimsical art
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  4. whoosh

    ART On The Case

    :)
    • whoosh
    • Thread
    • atmosphere book characters classic coat crime detective dimly lit fedora film noir investigation man mystery on the case pipes portrait reading suspense vintage
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  5. whoosh

    ART Puzzled

    :razz:
    • whoosh
    • Thread
    • animals cartoon chalkboard characters education equations forest foxes mathematics puzzle puzzled teacher
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  6. whoosh

    ART Coffee Break

    :)
    • whoosh
    • Thread
    • café cenobites characters coffee creepy digital art drinks duo eerie gothic grotesque horror horror art illustration monster pinhead
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  7. whoosh

    ART Postmans Country Dreams

    :)
    • whoosh
    • Thread
    • art cartoon characters clock tower color country dreams floral art garden illustration poster art postman retro vintage vintage uniform
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  8. B

    Windows 10 looking for a symbol that is used in the middle of a Schmitt trigger gate

    I have trawled through the hundreds of fonts I have and can't find a symbol that looks like the one in the middle of a schmitt trigger gate Do you know of a font that has this character? I have made something similar using the private character edit that comes with windows but can't see how...
    • bob24
    • Thread
    • characters design electrical engineering fonts graphics private character editor schmitt trigger symbols text symbol windows
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  9. D

    Windows 10 Keyboard layout ?

    Hello. I would like to move a French Canada keyboard layout from a Win 8.1 to this W-10 machine. The reason is that in W-10 the layout offered is the wrong one, does not honour the proper keys for the normal ( here ) accented caracters . Can this be done ? At the moment, I use, not out of...
    • daopa
    • Thread
    • accent canada characters french keyboard layout multilingual support system language windows 10 windows 8.1
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  10. B

    Clipboard Paste Issues with Specific Characters in Borland C Console Editor

    When using an old console editor, compiled with Borland C, I find that some characters do not paste from the clipboard, viz: ) * + : ; < = > ? @ ^ l (upper case L is ok!). All paste ok in other console applications, and when using the legacy console! Does anyone have an...
    • bjh
    • Thread
    • application borland characters clipboard console editor legacy oddity pasting solutions
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Software
  11. 4

    Windows 10 Missing some characters font on system dialog

    Some of the characters on the metro-style system dialog show up as a square instead of the actual character. Can anybody know how to fix this? TIA
  12. L

    Windows 10 Japanese keyboard input

    Hi guys, I'm having trouble with inputting stuff in Japanese. I have a standard European/American keyboard and normally this means that whenever I press "s" and "a" I'd get "さ" (Japanese "sa"), but now for every button I press a character appears (e.g. if I press "s" the result is "と" (Japanese...
  13. Joe Mendes

    Windows 7 Keys are all messed up

    so when i type my numbers and characters certain things happen 1 = `1 2 = 2+(opens chrome help?) 3 = 3 4 = 54 5 = 54 6 = 67 7 = 67 8 = =8 9 = 9 0 = -0 -/_ = -0 +/= = =8 \ = \ and there's a whole other list of what happens when i hold shift and...
    • Joe Mendes
    • Thread
    • characters help input issues key mapping keyboard magic station samsung shift key troubleshooting typing
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Software
  14. byunr

    Windows 7 korean shows as square boxes

    I recently installed Windows 7 onto my desktop because i got a new hard drive. I ran all the updates but I noticed that whenever i tried to type or read in korean, the characters would show up as boxes. I know this is a common issue but I can't seem to solve it. I've uninstalled and reinstalled...
    • byunr
    • Thread
    • characters desktop hard drive issues korean language reinstall update windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  15. aliyesami

    Windows 7 bitmap fonts needed

    I need (widthXheight) 5x8 or 10x16 BITMAP fonts can i get them ready made if not is there way to automatically generate them from existing fonts? I have tried few software to manually create the fonts but thats a tedious and long process for the whole ASCII set. thanks
    • aliyesami
    • Thread
    • ascii bitmap characters customization design encoding fonts generation graphics modification raster rendering software text tools typography visuals
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
  16. Z

    Windows 7 Japanese text suddenly became squares.

    Hi all i have been facing a problem from 2 days ago which is never happened before. my Windows Explorer hadn't problem displaying Japanese Characters in Folder and Files name until recently. like in this image it also gives sqaures instead of ► in folders. is there any fix for this ...
    • ZeraX
    • Thread
    • characters display encoding explorer files folders fonts japanese square windows
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  17. B

    Windows 7 Korean Unicode not showing up in skype/text files

    Hi everyone im having a huge problem which is annoying me . I've install the korean language pack to be able to see unicode. It worked for the first 2 days but then after that all i see in skype and text documents with korean in it is [] [] [] [] the square when unicode can't be presented. can...
  18. StefaNafetS

    Windows 7 ♅ ♆ why these symbols arent changeable within fonts?

    ♅ ♆ why these symbols arent changeable within fonts? I wanted to use them on a forum and it seems they are unchangeble regardless the font. The others dont have this problem as you can see hereLink Removed
  19. kemical

    Windows 7 Skyrim 1.6 Beta patch

    News on the new update: Reference: News - All News Edit: For those using the skyrim script extender, a new beta can be found here: http://skse.silverlock.org/ (needed otherwise mods like SkyUI won't work properly)
    • kemical
    • Thread
    • ai optimization beta patch bug fixes characters equipment issues game stability gaming improvements glitch kill cams lighting fixes memory issues mods mounted combat npc behavior post-launch ranged combat script extender skyrim steam user experience
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Games
  20. Dangaioh

    Kingdom Hearts

    embedding not allowed... <_<; URL: http://youtu.be/cywiAuchd5Y
    • Dangaioh
    • Thread
    • adventure animation characters disney gaming kingdom hearts rpg square enix storytelling video games
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Water Cooler