I just posted to another list: On Thursday, August 08, 2002, Jorge Candeias wrote:
> all characters are accessible by keying down their numeric code while > pressing the ALT key. The codes can be obtained from a number of > sources (and vary from laguage pack to language pack, though all > western european languages are included in just one pack), <...> The > character �, for instance, is ALT-0223... so I can write stra�e > without problems. :) Yes, but this works only inside the currently selected code-page, which is 1-byte (256 chars max). Jorge, using CP1251 (aka ANSI, silimar to Latin1 aka ISO 8859-1), can type a german ess-zet or an icelandic thorn, but not a cyrillic hard sign, nor an arabic meem, nor a devanagari virama. Which is a pity, since all those chars are usable for other manipulations in every versions of Windows ever since Win98. Hopefully the Alt+NumPad trick will be implemented soon in Windows and other systems allowing general and keyboard- and application-independent typing of any given Unicode char. -- ____. Ant�nio MARTINS-Tuv�lkin, | ()| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |####| R. Laureano de Oliveira, 64 r/c esq. | PT-1885-050 MOSCAVIDE (LRS) N�o me invejo de quem tem | +351 917 511 549 carros, parelhas e montes | http://www.tuvalkin.web.pt/bandeira/ s� me invejo de quem bebe | http://pagina.de/bandeiras/ a �gua em todas as fontes |
