The same tradition has variations in Windows. I recall the leading zero
means ANSI code page. I thought I recall a way to give more digits and
specify Unicode, but I can't find it on Google.
--John
Timothy S. Nelson wayland-at-wayland.id.au |Perl 6| wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2009, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
Ah yes, on the PC historically you hold down the ALT key and type the
code with the numpad keys.
At least when I used it, this was a decimal, rather than hex
number, and had to be preceded by a 0 (zero).
So if anyone is still on eg. Windows 98, this may be the way to go
:).
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