Was "Cultivated Onion"; now symbols
- Subject: Was "Cultivated Onion"; now symbols
- From: R* F* D*
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:48:20 -0500
At 03:53 PM 2/26/2002 +1300, you wrote:
>You should be able to type a C with a cedilla (and there are lots of
>other funny characters one can achieve similarly!) if you use the ALT
>key together with the numeric pad (at the right-hand end of most
>keyboards) Num Lock must be ON.
>NB. This does NOT work with the numeric keys across the top of the
>keyboard.
>
>Hold down the ALT and type 640 this produces Ç (upper case)
>- while if you do the same, but type 647, you will get ç (lower case)
>
>Another very useful one is the degree sign, ALT + 248 °
>
I use WordPerfect in this situation. I can enter special characters
(extended ASCII set only) like the nonsense word below
àçôÿøêñÆ ½©™ £¥§¢
by going to Insert > Symbol (Control W) for these characters. I can copy
this word and paste it into Eudora. MS Word should have similar capabilities.
The keys for the Mac OS may be different, but you still have to know what
numbers go with what symbols. Also, the ability to read the extended ASCII
characters depends on both the OS and the text editor of the program (email,
word processor, composer [PageMaker, Quark], spreadsheet, database) you use
to read it with.
If it looks like gobbeldygook in your email, copy the word in question to
Word or WordPerfect. The correct info is probably there and might show up
correctly in your word processor.
Richard F. Dufresne
313 Spur Road
Greensboro, North Carolina 27406 USA
336-674-3105
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