How do we type in non-English letters and special symbols? I am not familiar with Macs, although I understand that some of these characters are easily available directly from the keyboard.
The following list provides the largest number of symbols that should be displayed on all receiving monitors. There are quite a few other symbols available, but their display is inconsistent across different hardware and software configurations.
On a PC, holding the Alt key down while entering the next four digits on the numeric keypad to the right of the keyboard will produce the following letters and symbols. The numeral keys across the top of the keyboard will not produce these results. Your NumLock should be set ON. You must type all four digits while the Alt key is depressed. (The Yen, ¥, at the bottom is an example of a character than many machines will either not produce or not display.)
(There are a number of key patterns that can produce these symbols with only two or three digits, however, like the extended set of characters mentioned, above, they are inconsistent across hardware and software configs. The following list should consistently produce the largest number of symbols for the largest number of (PC) users.)
Now, if I get really lucky, UBB will not mess up my alignment too badly:
I’m familiar with the Macintosh. If those characters are included in the font you’re currently using, they are all available from the keyboard. For example,
é is typed in by <option>e e.
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I’m familiar with the Macintosh. If those characters are included in the font you’re currently using, they are all available from the keyboard. For example,
é is typed in by {option}e e.
Does {option} indicate a diacritical mark on the keyboard? Or is it a separate special key? (E.g., do you press ` and e simultaneously followed by e to get è?
It may be intuitively obvious to Mac users, but I’m having trouble picturing the keystrokes from your description.
Sorry, tom, I’m at work right now so I don’t have access to my trusty make. Blast and damnation The “special” keys on a Macintosh are the “command” key (sometimes called the apple key), the control key (also present on PC keyboards) and the option key (labelled opt).
The option key, (similar to the [alt] key on an IBM keyboard) works the same way as the shift key, in that when you press it by itself it does nothing. You use it in conjunction with another key to produce a different character.
The following list provides the largest number of symbols that should be displayed on all receiving monitors. There are quite a few other symbols available, but their display is inconsistent across different hardware and software configurations.
Don’t forget this one.
Try my way. Use the Windows Character Map [under accessories] find the FONT that has the character you want. Select the character. Copy it. Paste it into the message. Ta da!
However, her keyboard has a set of numeric keys over where the old IBM 29 keypunch numerics were–on the right side of the keyboard, on top of the U I O J K L (and some surrounding) keys. You activate them with one of the Alt or Ctrl or other non-character keys.
Greek and Cyrillic are among the codes that do not cross all platform/OS boundaries. If I get a chance, I’ll post the codes, but I can’t see them in raw ASCII, so I don’t know how well they’ll show up here.
If the following work, I’ll try to put the list together, if they don’t, I probably won’t:
(At the right is the character I see after entering the Alt+code on my PC)
I Alt+1097 lower case alpha ___ I
) Alt+1065 upper case alpha ___ )
J Alt+1098 lower case beta ____ J
Alt+1066 upper case beta ____ *
O Alt+1103 lower case gamma ___ O
/ Alt+1071 upper case gamma ___ /
L Alt+1100 lower case delta ___ L
, Alt+1068 upper case delta ___ ,
|4102|lower case cyr_a ____ (no character)
µ|4070|upper case cyr_a ___ Greek lowercase mu
¦|4044|lower case cyr_b ___ Broken bar
_|4060|upper case cyr_b ___ underscore
|4100|lower case cyr_v ____ (no character)
_|4068|upper case cyr_v ___ underscore
§|4117|lower case cyr_g ___ Section symbol
_|4085|upper case cyr_g ___ underscore
Seems that listing those codes would be a waste of time. (If you need one of those alphabets, there are fonts available for various computers, including TrueType fonts, I believe. To produce themn here, it seems you need HTML.)
does work, with the angle brackets in place, to give ‘<font face=“symbol”>p</font>’. And the rest of the Greek alphabet works the same way, as I observe this on Netscape Nav 4.7.
