Windows 10: How can I enter a square box as an ASCII character?

Hello

Is there any way to enter an ASCII character that shows up as a white square box?

Background: In my hand-written pand & paper notes, I have various conventions for using different types of bullets in the margin. And if I draw a white square box in the margin, this provides a quick way for me to visually scan my notes to find anything that is an exectable task that requires action.

What I then do is come back and tick the box once it is done.

Does any ASCII character exist that will reliably show up in different applications as a which box with a solid/black border? And if so, is there any way to enter it using Alt plus the numeric keyboard?

Also good would be an ASCII character for a box with a tick inside it. (Or even just a tick?!)

Cheers

J


PS I am using Windows 10, the English Language, the UK region and various standard applications (e.g. The MS Office365 suite, TextPad, MindManager, MLO, Xara, plus Firefox/Edge/Chrome browers)

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However the Nokia N80 does not have the option for hex or ASCII when entering the WAP preshared key.

So it looks like it is a software error on the phone side, or that im just missing a step on setting this up on the phone side

Anyone know about any fixes for this or how i can contact the developers for help on this....

 

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You can only enter the ASCII key.

 

If you hold down alt type tge ASCII number it should work

 

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Box drawing characters in the ANSI range are genererally found only in the OEM fonts, such as are used in cmd.exe. The characters do exist in the unicode range but are more difficult to enter.