I believe you turn on NumLock with Fn+Scroll Lock. Also, try both Alt keys. My TPad beeps when I hit a pair of keys that overload, and the controller is not able to distinguish the combination.
- Alex -- Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better than to put one in a fruit salad. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jeffrey Race <jr...@attglobal.net> wrote: > Advice pls: I'm trying to enter special characters but have encountered > problems, probably my understanding. > > MS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315684 says > > "Press and hold down the ALT key while you type the four number Unicode > value for the character. > Note that NUM LOCK must be on, and you have to use the number pad keys to > type the Unicode > character value." > > I have tried this and as soon as I depress the first numeric key I get a > beep indicating rejection of this action. > > I am guessing that guessing that num lock is not enabled by default on the > T43. > > How do I enable it. I googled and got some scary stuff about registry > editing. > Pls help on this. > > And once enabled, how do I invoke it (as opposed to the Scroll Lock which > is > on the same key).? > > I also vaguely recall once seeing on some computer a small screen display > when any of these special key functions was active. Is this part of the > OS > or do I need to download some special ap? > > [I need this for entering some special characters to display a Pali in > Latin characters.] > > Thanks for all help > > Jeffrey Race > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > Thinkpad@stderr.org > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
