We've had this sort of discussion before. It's not particularly to do
with using Mac or Windows, or any other operating system; it's to do
with how your software is configured to read the character, ie what
language your word processor, email reader or web browser is set up to
read. Just because you can insert a character into *your* system
doesn't necessarily mean that another system will read it as the same
character, or even show it at all.
Have a look at:
http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/char.html
It's all explained in far more detail than most of us will ever need to
know!
Brenda
On 22 Mar 2006, at 06:47, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
On Mar 22, 2006, at 0:26, Hendrika van Kooten wrote:
To produce the umlaut for the German language, on the keyboard,
press the
Alt key and hold it down while you key in the following numbers on
the RIGHT
side of the keyboard ( thus NOT the number keys across the top )
Alt 129 ü Alt 153 Ö
Alt 132 ä Alt 154 Ü
Alt 148 ö Alt 225 ß
Alt 142 Ä
Not in MacMail :) For me, Alt129 = ¡™ª (an upside-down exclamation
mark and tiny TMA at the top) when I use the numbers accross the the
top. When I use the numbers on the right, it's: 129 (hardly worth the
extra effort <g>) Neither gives me the u-umlaut.
At least I can _read_ all the letters with the diacritical marks that
you've posted... When I get mail from Poland, sometimes I I have to
"reinterpret" a long string (up to 5 weird symbols) for a single
deviation from the standard English keyboard. I'm told I could change
my "reception" to North European standard, but that's not the standard
I use most often... And I would have to keep switching from one to the
other constantly... And I'd still have to try and memorize a whole lot
of peculiar characters when writing... _And_ chances are that
"Northern European" would mean Swedish and Danish and maybe Finnish,
but not Polish... Too much effort for too little profit and I'm too
lazy :)
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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