In trying to keep organised with my files and folders I’ve often used naming conventions so that I can sort items in a way that makes it easy to find things. For folders that I use regularly I’d prefix with an underscore: _ as this forces a file or folder to the top or the view when sorted alphabetically but what about folders that I knew that I’d rarely need, what comes after Z?

After about half an hour of internet forum trawling and blind Alt + number combination bashing I found out that there were actually one or two characters that windows will sort after Z but the majority of them were incredibly unsightly and then I came across this little beauty (and little is the word!) so here it is, in all size 36 font glory, the ‘modifier letter low circumflex accent’:

     ꞈ

The way you get to it is by going to a wordpad or word instance, hold the Alt key and using the number pad type 42888. You can then copy and paste the character into the front of your file or folder name and voila, it will now sort below any normally named files or folders, out of the way and not cluttering up anything else.

Here’s the an infosheet that gives the character details and codes in different standards:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/a788/index.htm

Sadly, it can’t be directly typed into the filename and does need to be copy/pasted into a folder name but it works at least!