Is there an upside down caret character?

Joel_Coehoorn_3043 0
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I have to maintain a large number of classic ASP pages, many of which have tabular data with no sort capabilities at all. Whatever order the original developer used in the database query is what you're stuck with.

I want to to tack on some basic sorting to a bunch of these pages, and I'm doing it all client side with javascript. I already have the basic script done to sort a given table on a given column in a given direction, and it works well as long as the table is limited by certain conventions we follow here.

What I want to do for the UI is just indicate sort direction with the caret character ( ^ ) and ... what? Is there a special character that is the direct opposite of a caret? The letter v won't quite cut it. Alternatively, is there another character pairing I can use?

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17 Answers
sblundy_48930

Don't forget the ∧ (logical and) and ∨ (logical or) characters, that's what I use for indicating sort direction: HTML entities ∧ & ∨ respectively.

user_2821150

There's always a lowercase "v". But seriously, aside from Unicode, all I can find would be &darr, which looks like ↓.

user_105930

An upside-down circumflex is called a caron, or a háček.

It has an HTML entity in the TADS Latin-2 extension to HTML: ˇ and looks like this: ˇ which unfortunately doesn't display in the same size/proportion as the ^ caret.

Or you can use the unicode U+30C.

Bill_Karwin_208600

You might be able to use the black triangles, Unicode values U+25b2 and U+25bc. Or the arrows, U+2191 and U+2193.

Mark_Ransom_59870

c# code

int i = 0;
char c = '↑';
i = (int)c;
Console.WriteLine(i); // prints 8593

int j = 0;
char d = '↓';
j = (int)d;
Console.WriteLine(j); // prints 8595
shahkalpesh_235740

I'd use a couple of tiny images. Would look better too.

Alternatively, you can try the Character Map utility that comes with Windows or try looking here.

Another solution I've seen is to use the Wingdings font for symbols. That has a lot fo arrows.

user_413600
user_5526470

So I wanted the caret exactly as in OWA, so I downloaded office365icons.woff from https://owa.example.com/owa/prem/15.1.1913.10/resources/styles/fonts/office365icons.woff (have to be logged in to do it, so did it through browser) and then, copying the boiled-down style from the website:

  @font-face {
      font-family: 'Office365Icons';
      src: url('/fonts/office365icons.woff') format('woff');
      font-weight: normal;
      font-style: normal;
  }

  span.o-icon {
      font-family: 'Office365Icons';
      font-size: 14pt;
      line-height: 21px;
      color: #666;
  }

And finally:

<span class="o-icon">&#xe088;</span>
user_45693070

If you are needing font-awesome for React Apps then React Icons is a very good resource and very easy to implement. It includes a lot more libraries than just font-awesome.

user_19910200
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