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Create the characters you can write on a MacOS US English Keyboard (as another OS will read them)

Introduction

This is a small challenge I came up with while trying to make some compact code for my younger brother to use. I don't think it's particularly interesting, but I believe it presents some unique challenges because of its limited input/output requirements.

Challenge

I want to enumerate all the characters that my brother can write on his MacOS computer using only his US English keyboard, as they will be read by my Windows device. He does not have Unicode hex input enabled, so I only have to worry about things he can type using combinations of Shift and Alt/Option. These are as follows:

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢£\§ ̈©a«¬® ̄°± ́μ¶· ̧o»¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõö÷øùúûüÿıŒœŸƒˆˇ ̆ ̇ ̊ ̨ ̃ ̋Ωπ–—‘’‚""„†‡•...‰‹›⁄€TM∂∆∏∑√∞∫≈≠≤≥◊fifl

along with the Apple logo, which my device reads as � (U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER). As a list of unicode codepoints, these are

[U+0020, U+0021, U+0022, U+0023, U+0024, U+0025, U+0026, U+0027, U+0028, U+0029, U+002A, U+002B, U+002C, U+002D, U+002E, U+002F, U+0030, U+0031, U+0032, U+0033, U+0034, U+0035, U+0036, U+0037, U+0038, U+0039, U+003A, U+003B, U+003C, U+003D, U+003E, U+003F, U+0040, U+0041, U+0042, U+0043, U+0044, U+0045, U+0046, U+0047, U+0048, U+0049, U+004A, U+004B, U+004C, U+004D, U+004E, U+004F, U+0050, U+0051, U+0052, U+0053, U+0054, U+0055, U+0056, U+0057, U+0058, U+0059, U+005A, U+005B, U+005C, U+005D, U+005E, U+005F, U+0060, U+0061, U+0062, U+0063, U+0064, U+0065, U+0066, U+0067, U+0068, U+0069, U+006A, U+006B, U+006C, U+006D, U+006E, U+006F, U+0070, U+0071, U+0072, U+0073, U+0074, U+0075, U+0076, U+0077, U+0078, U+0079, U+007A, U+007B, U+007C, U+007D, U+007E, U+00A1, U+00A2, U+00A3, U+00A5, U+00A7, U+00A8, U+00A9, U+00AA, U+00AB, U+00AC, U+00AE, U+00AF, U+00B0, U+00B1, U+00B4, U+00B5, U+00B6, U+00B7, U+00B8, U+00BA, U+00BB, U+00BF, U+00C0, U+00C1, U+00C2, U+00C3, U+00C4, U+00C5, U+00C6, U+00C7, U+00C8, U+00C9, U+00CA, U+00CB, U+00CC, U+00CD, U+00CE, U+00CF, U+00D1, U+00D2, U+00D3, U+00D4, U+00D5, U+00D6, U+00D8, U+00D9, U+00DA, U+00DB, U+00DC, U+00DF, U+00E0, U+00E1, U+00E2, U+00E3, U+00E4, U+00E5, U+00E6, U+00E7, U+00E8, U+00E9, U+00EA, U+00EB, U+00EC, U+00ED, U+00EE, U+00EF, U+00F1, U+00F2, U+00F3, U+00F4, U+00F5, U+00F6, U+00F7, U+00F8, U+00F9, U+00FA, U+00FB, U+00FC, U+00FF, U+0131, U+0152, U+0153, U+0178, U+0192, U+02C6, U+02C7, U+02D8, U+02D9, U+02DA, U+02DB, U+02DC, U+02DD, U+03A9, U+03C0, U+2013, U+2014, U+2018, U+2019, U+201A, U+201C, U+201D, U+201E, U+2020, U+2021, U+2022, U+2026, U+2030, U+2039, U+203A, U+2044, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2202, U+2206, U+220F, U+2211, U+221A, U+221E, U+222B, U+2248, U+2260, U+2264, U+2265, U+25CA, U+FB01, U+FB02, U+FFFD]

Your program should take no input and return as output any permutation of the above characters. As such, all of the following are equally valid outputs:

 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢£\§ ̈©a«¬® ̄°± ́μ¶· ̧o»¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõö÷øùúûüÿıŒœŸƒˆˇ ̆ ̇ ̊ ̨ ̃ ̋Ωπ–—‘’‚""„†‡•...‰‹›⁄€TM∂∆∏∑√∞∫≈≠≤≥◊fifl�

�flfi◊≥≤≠≈∫∞√∑∏∆∂TM€⁄›‹‰...•‡†„""‚’‘—–πΩ ̋ ̃ ̨ ̊ ̇ ̆ˇˆƒŸœŒıÿüûúùø÷öõôóòñïîíìëêéèçæåäãâáàßÜÛÚÙØÖÕÔÓÒÑÏÎÍÌËÊÉÈÇÆÅÄÃÂÁÀ¿»o ̧·¶μ ́±° ̄®¬«a© ̈§\£¢¡~}|{zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba`_^]\[ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA@?>=<;:9876543210/.-,+*)('&%$#"!

'•ö‚›ƒõo≈¶≥πJBè≤‰ˆ®Iã8√=Ÿ"...«PêıÕ*&|UZk£_!œ’uÆ@Ùø¢{Û ̊Óüä^j¡5y- 3(nËN∑ò‡⁄D\S2FhÒîO1ûV6ç,m9ÍæÉ· ̧/◊Êw∆~R)é4áÂ% ̋Úl°ÿG† ̆tKÈ¿Àó∞H]§`rfiñ≠ìzv.¬»©∏ëâgcbØ÷ ̈Ã"eíŒ∂? ́$Ç\�ÁC ̨ïù±ΩaoflÄ}#Îμ„:àßXaMxå€ÔTTM; ̃<qÅ7d∫‹ú‘ˇ+—Ñ0ô[fs–ÏQÖEpÌ ̇LW"ÜAi> ̄Y

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The following are invalid outputs:

 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

(only some of the characters)

D4úÉÄnxJ ]0l"fiƒ‹«:£* ̃∏Ø¶cÃÈ•ír\ ̈(63S ̇ ̊1TMR{u ̋ ́é&"#Õ œGÅ9ÂUîÊ ̄E®øfH–@ãòp†YÜ‚K"!öïsOâXg·NûQaàiÍÓ'o#&ñìÀÔÑŒt√≤ ̆Bæ∫„¿fl°,ˆ€çb\...>Ï◊äw)≈C§;ùkÁμ�eoI¬ÛË›V[`∞≠yÎAzˇ»÷j’ÿÇ<_Ì¡Z-õvÆMΩ∂FWm%⁄L2ß∑‘åÒÚ|=‡≥ê¢Öó~aı+ë$.üq58±∆Ùh/èô^π©—$‰TP%'" ̧Ÿ!7á?}d ̨

(some characters repeated)

‹ìñ∞]~äÓ_1,òètaqÙ|cıiß≥ÜóÎm{;`oÃBÏçyxπ ̆Ç®—âÆÕ©jîOp ̧MV¿éÄT¡êØ∫≠!CΩ≤ ̋ö∂næ+"PÒ⁄‰°∏GÚ?⍼o∆†Y387ドル»AaÅbTMu=‡ÍË�ˇUR@Füμfi◊ør ̇íQe:wkWH46Êv ́œ5flNlÈˆdã÷Œ ‚\ÉÖ>ú[}•õ≈ù/Û∑ô›%åÿ¶\Ì–Á·¬< ̃ ̊ ̄&ëXà§ ̨ƒï€«2Ñ-'û)‘√À*ÂZ^#Isf0...K." ̈„gh±SL¢$"Dá(’ÔzE9JŸ

(includes a character not in the list, namely ⍼)

Solutions in Python 2 or Python 3 are preferred because Python is my native programming language, but all standard languages, code-golf oriented or otherwise, are allowed (of course, no standard loopholes). Your program must finish within five seconds, and you must provide a link to a resource to run it online. Programs are scored as follows:

take the length (in bytes) of the UTF-32(-LE) representation of the source code
if your code gives the same output every time, add n to its score, where n is the smallest number of characters you have to remove from its output to make it be sorted in UTF-32 order (either increasing or decreasing)
if it can give different outputs, add 222 (the length of the output) to its score.
if your code uses only ASCII characters, you get to (ceiling-)divide its score by 2, so a score of 731 becomes 366.

If your code is bytes rather than characters (as in the case of a custom codepage) and it can be decoded with ASCII then it counts as "ASCII-only"; otherwise each byte is 4 points. An ASCII only solution will score twice its byte count as a baseline, but if its output is scrambled it gets half the penalty points as well.

Please explain how you computed your score. The lowest score wins; ties are broken by length of the UTF-8 encoding of the source code.

Baseline/Example Input and Output

Below is my current best code: Python 2, with a score of 664 (166 UTF-32 codepoints, each 4 bytes, plus 0 for giving the same result every time and that result being in UTF-32 sorted order).

print''.join(map(chr,range(32,127)))+'¡¢£\§ ̈©a«¬® ̄°± ́μ¶· ̧o»¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõö÷øùúûüÿıŒœŸƒˆˇ ̆ ̇ ̊ ̨ ̃ ̋Ωπ–—‘’‚""„†‡•...‰‹›⁄€TM∂∆∏∑√∞∫≈≠≤≥◊fifl�'

It takes no input and provides as output the following string:

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢£\§ ̈©a«¬® ̄°± ́μ¶· ̧o»¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõö÷øùúûüÿıŒœŸƒˆˇ ̆ ̇ ̊ ̨ ̃ ̋Ωπ–—‘’‚""„†‡•...‰‹›⁄€TM∂∆∏∑√∞∫≈≠≤≥◊fifl�

Answer*

# [Charcoal] -v, 269 printable ASCII bytes, sorted, score 538

 forMap"A-!?,!b-!d,!f,!h-!m,!o-!r,!u-!y,!{-!|,\"!-\"1,\"3-\"8,\":-\">,\"A-\"Q,\"S-\"^,\"a,#4,#U-#V,#{,6,ドル'M-'N,'_-'d,)r,**,vI-vJ,vN-vP,vR-vT,vV-vX,v,円vf,vo-vp,vz,x,ドルy;,{],{a,{j,{l,{u,{y,|',|D,|,円|`-|a,!&o,'+E-'+F,'8n"/","Mapi/"-"ChrBaseStringl,g:UpInclusiveRangeMiniMaxi

[Try it online!][TIO-luku4pi0] Works by converting from base 95. Ungolfed:

 for (Map(Split("A-!?,!b-!d,!f,!h-!m,!o-!r,!u-!y,!{-!|,\"!-\"1,\"3-\"8,\":-\">,\"A-\"Q,\"S-\"^,\"a,#4,#U-#V,#{,6,ドル'M-'N,'_-'d,)r,**,vI-vJ,vN-vP,vR-vT,vV-vX,v,円vf,vo-vp,vz,x,ドルy;,{],{a,{j,{l,{u,{y,|',|D,|,円|`-|a,!&o,'+E-'+F,'8n"),
 ","), Map(Split(i, "-"), Character(BaseString(l, g)))))
 Print(:Up, InclusiveRange(Minimum(i), Maximum(i)));

Charcoal's parser doesn't like consecutive variable names so I need to leave a separator between `l` and `g`. `Chr`, `Min` and `Max` are just permitted abbreviations, while `/` is actually infix `Divide`, which is overloaded to be `Split` on strings.

[Charcoal]: https://github.com/somebody1234/Charcoal
[TIO-luku4pi0]: https://tio.run/##Dc/bSsNAFAXQbzmT4mC7D0UUKRWUeoMKKbW1xYd4GdPcJCZhag@Nk3@P87SeV5wbG9em7Pu0tqFp1IzpBvTFtAOloJzpB1QzWdCBqQU5pg6RIo7UmffcO/FOvdfemffZu/a@ew2CCwQbDrYIHAaX0CHrBfQH6x1OLYZDyJzlCbJgWUJWLC@QLcsrJIKkkJqlgfzhOEB7BfcGZ@C@4Uq4A1yLTqO7Rxeh@@TOgE5q6NED69Ej9KRSYwXlY8VYsbrL7a3ZJ@tfW1RZiWy6aeZVXB72hSQrU2VJWFRFaI5F3/cs/w "Charcoal – Try It Online"

If this is an answer to a challenge…

…Be sure to follow the challenge specification. However, please refrain from exploiting obvious loopholes. Answers abusing any of the standard loopholes are considered invalid. If you think a specification is unclear or underspecified, comment on the question instead.
…Try to optimize your score. For instance, answers to code-golf challenges should attempt to be as short as possible. You can always include a readable version of the code in addition to the competitive one. Explanations of your answer make it more interesting to read and are very much encouraged.
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