Bill Potts wrote:
>Norm:
>
>If you bring up the Character Map application, you will see that it
>specifies Alt=0xxx, rather than Alt+xxx. The four digit value (even though
>the first digit is always zero) is the one that will give you all the
>possible characters. Note that, where either the four or the three-digit
>value can be used, they are different values. I recommend sticking with the
>four-digit value (in which � is Alt-0201).
>
>The circumflex values for A,E,I,O and U are:
>
>� = Alt-0194
>� = Alt-0202
>� = Alt-0206
>� = Alt-0212
>� = Alt-0219
>
>Add 32 to each of those values to get the lower-case equivalents.
>
>By the way, tr�ma is not of French derivation. In English, it's spelt
>tremma (but is absent from many dictionaries). I think it's originally
>Greek. IBM uses it to describe what is variously known as the umlaut or
>dieresis.
My Eudora produced a tall rectangle for the circumflexed letters that Bill
quoted.
The Shorter Oxford dictionary confirms the diaerisis (also dierisis) comes
from Greek.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Norman Werling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: 2000, October 28 11:00
>> To: Bill Potts; Louis Jourdan; Joseph B. Reid
>> Subject: Alt144 � and capitalizing the Alt140 �
>>
>>
>> My Windows 95 French Canadian keyboard settings show � also as
>> the shift key
>> for upper case on the bottom row at the extreme right as well as Alt144.
>>
Evidently keyboard layouts are not identical in Macintosh OS and Windows.
In my Macintosh Canadian French keyboard I get � where Norm gets �.
However the Canadian - CSA and the Canadian - ISO keyboards perform as Norm
has indicated.
