Jack D. Lewis wrote:
Girard Aquino wrote the following on 8/11/2008 3:23 PM:
i've never gotten to figure how to use the "code" for the special
characters. So if for example it says in the special characters dialog
that a character has U+00A9 (169), what should I do to quickly insert
that special character in the document without having to go through
the dialog and selecting in manually?
Girard,
You can input the special characters by holding down the ALT key and
then entering the 4 digit decimal code. IE: ALT+0169
Note that the character that is returned will vary depending upon the
current font you have selected.
The method you have suggested only works on Windows and only with
particular applications, notably MS Office and Word Pad. With other
applications you will normally only be able to enter numbers from 0 to 255.
Entering them without initial zero will give the corresponding character
in your current DOS character set. Entering them with initial zero will
give the corresponding character in your current 8-bit Windows character
set.
If you type a value above 256, the sequence will wrap, that is 256 will
give the same results as typing 0, 257 will give the same results as 1,
258 will give the same results as 2, and so forth.
For Windows machines you can download the free program Quick Unicode
Input from http://www.cardbox.com/quick.htm . This allows you to enter
decimal versions of the Unicode numbers for each character using the
numeric keypad for all base plane Unicode characters. You can also enter
the characters in hex, using either keypad or regular keyboard provided
you precede the number with the decimal point from the numeric keypad
and hold down the left Alt key while typing the decimal point and the
subsequent numbers.
This hexadecimal Unicode value for characters is the same value as what
OpenOffice.org calls the “special code”.
Jim Allan
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