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Font characters using Alt+Number
Name: ALN Date: November 24, 2004 at 09:43:26 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: not necessary
Comment:
hi,
re: stupid font mapping.
appreciate any help wrt why newer operating systems such as ME and XP home edition do not support accessing specific font characters using the alt+number feature. Is there a simple fix? If not, does XP Pro have this feature?
Name: RobertEL Date: November 24, 2004 at 14:25:01 Pacific
Reply:
Dunno about XP but ME sure does. Make sure NumLock is on and use the number keypad.
Hold ALT down and press zero then the desired ascii number.
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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: November 24, 2004 at 22:02:21 Pacific
Reply:
Dunno about ME or XP, but it works in 2K / 9x and DOS at least back to 5.00.
ALT-xxx where xxx is the DECIMAL number for the chat.
157≡¥
etcetera.
HTH
M2
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Response Number 3
Name: Ed in Texas. Date: November 25, 2004 at 03:46:04 Pacific
Reply:
ALN, FWIW, used to run ME, now run XP Pro, both have the feature you describe (use all the time). Suspect you need to make sure your number pad is active via the pad key (num lock, top left on keypad). HTH. Ed in Texas.
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Response Number 4
Name: SkipCox Date: November 25, 2004 at 08:34:43 Pacific
Reply:
What Ed and Mechanix said...
Works just fine on all my systems from DOS 6.22/Win3.1 thru XP Pro.
Alt+248 = °
Skip
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Response Number 5
Name: Trev Date: November 27, 2004 at 10:01:03 Pacific
Reply:
I guess you got the message - all Windows operating systems support this. Have a look at the character map. If it's not installed in your accessories, then install it from Add/Remove programs, Windows setup.
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