Subj : Re: accent.
To   : JEAN PARROT
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 09:48 am

-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to JAY EMRIE <=-

 JP>         Hello Jay, we were saying !

 JP> JP>        ‚, Alt 130 will give it to you, ‚ for touch‚ .

 JE> Both ALT 130 and ALT 0233 work just fine on my system - they do
 JE> exactly the same ‚.  ALT 0216 gives me O, and ALT 0248 give me a o,
 JE> neither with the slash which my chart says they are supposed to do.
 JE> Seems that neither your chart nor my chart is 100% correct or at least
 JE> they do not agree 100%. :-(

 JP>         I am using, Jay, the table that comes with this editor, TSE
 JP>   Jr. It is a bit tedious to use but does the job. The ASCII scale
 JP>   only goes to 255 here. If I do not rememebr the Alt+ xxx code, I
 JP>   then have to use it. é is what I get on my Thinkpad if I do the
 JP>   0233. Really funny and non-standard.

ASCII characters (going to 255) are used in DOS and DOS-based programs; 
Windows, for going into 3-decades now (yes, Win 1.0 was released in November 
1985 so Windows is almost into the start of its 3rd-decade) uses a different 
character set which does not include the line-drawing characters included in 
the standard ASCII set. (Microsoft decided that users needing to make lines and 
right-angles (etc) could do it with a graphics program).

Alt+0233 gives me é (an accented 'e' in case this doesn't display properly) on 
this Dell notebook running WinXP (in Notepad); but I need to remember to hold 
the FN key down and use the keys with numbers on them for the 'numeric keypad' 
overlaid on the standard letter keys.

Doing that, Alt+0216 is Ø (an 'O' with a line through it), and Alt+0248 is ø 
(the small letter version)... in Notepad, Alt+130 also gives the é character 
(accented 'e')... 
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