At 02:06 AM 12/21/2012, you wrote:
>I was just showing someone how, if, you held down the Alt key on an IBM PC
>style keyboard and keyed in numeric codes on the right hand number pad,
>that you would get the character for the equivalent code.
>Then I woke up.
>
>As I recall I showed them that if you keyed Alt-41 that you got "A" etc,
>whereas (of course) you have to key Alt-65  ($41 =3D dec(65) ) to get an A=
..)
>Whether this was memory failure or dream translation I'm not sure.
>
>I can't recall when I last used this capability "in anger" while awake.
>Memory fails to suggest exactly when, but it does not seem to have been to=
o
>long ago (ie years rather than decades).
>
>I do recall using it a few years back when a Chinese hotel PC keyboard
>insisted on producing Chinese characters and I was not (then) aware of the
>very simple means of toggling between keyboard languages (typically
>ctrl-shift cycles)
>I used Wordpad and cut & paste plus Altxx to produce a message :-).
>
>
>
>           Russell

The "three number with leading zero" codes seem to be more reliable=20
(as far as working
in different applications). Eg. ALT-0176 for the degrees symbol.=20
ALT-0163 for GBP,
ALT-0165 for Yuan or..

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html

They require the numeric keypad, but I can coax them out of any of my noteb=
ooks
by using the virtual numeric keypad (blue "Fn" shift key) which mostly
overlays alpha keys

0 -> M
1 -> J
2 -> K
3 -> L
4 -> U
5 -> I
6 -> O
7 -> 7 (upper row)
8 -> 8  "
9 -> 9  "

Failing that, open a Microsoft or other program that has "insert symbol"
and cut and paste that.

You can often cut and past Chinese characters (eg. mandarintools.com=20
C/E dictionary).

The ctrl-shift cycles thing is interesting.. there are also some=20
sequences that
cause the screen to rotate (for pivot displays, but easy to screw=20
with someone's
display in a flash if they're not aware of it).


--sp

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