Google is your friend:

Alt-nnn	- to enter a character from OEM character set (usually the old PC
character set)

Alt-0nnn	- to enter a character from ANSI character set

Alt-+xxxx	- to enter a unicode character (where '+' is the + sign in
the numeric keyboard and xxxx are four _hex_ digits)


To get the last one to work you need to create the registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\EnableHexNumpad=20

With a string value of "1"


-- Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Spehro Pefhany
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 2:41 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT]:: In your dreams

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=20
>PC style keyboard and keyed in numeric codes on the right hand number=20
>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"=20
>etc, whereas (of course) you have to key Alt-65  ($41 =3D dec(65) ) to=20
>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=20
>too long ago (ie years rather than decades).
>
>I do recall using it a few years back when a Chinese hotel PC keyboard=20
>insisted on producing Chinese characters and I was not (then) aware of=20
>the very simple means of toggling between keyboard languages (typically=20
>ctrl-shift cycles) I used Wordpad and cut & paste plus Altxx to produce=20
>a message :-).
>
>
>
>           Russell

The "three number with leading zero" codes seem to be more reliable (as far
as working in different applications). Eg. ALT-0176 for the degrees symbol.=
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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
notebooks 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 C/E
dictionary).

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


--sp

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