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To: 'Murray Sargent' ; Raymond
Mercier
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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:19
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Subject: RE: Code points on Windows
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> Behalf Of Murray Sargent >
Sent: Wednesday, January
On 14/01/2004 20:18:51 Philippe Verdy wrote:
>There's nothing in the default keyboard drivers to allow you input directly
>from the keyboard, characters that are not in your current Windows code page
>(the default keyboard drivers will not return characters outside of this
>codepage).
>
>When thi
Title: RE: Code points on Windows
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Murray Sargent
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:01 PM
> WordPad on Windows 2000 and XP support Alt+x. Win95 and Win98 WordPads
> don't, since they used earlier Ric
Raymond Mercier wrote: "In MS Word if you type the Unicode code point,
followed by Alt-X, you get the character (if you have the font). This
works in reverse. Sometimes in a RichEdit control window it will work
in the first direction, but not in reverse.
It does not work in Wordpad, in spite of
Title: RE: Code points on Windows
From: Raymond Mercier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:37 PM
> It does not work in Wordpad, in spite of its use of RichEdit. I don't
> know why not.
It's working fine for me on Wordpad (Win2k) rig
Title: Code points on Windows
In MS Word if you type the Unicode code point, followed by
Alt-X, you get the character (if you have the font). This works in
reverse.
Sometimes in a RichEdit control window it will work
in the first direction, but not in reverse.
It does not work in
Mike Ayers asked: "On Windows, it is well known that you can generate a
character from its code point by holding down the alt key and typing the
code point in decimal, with a leading 0, on the numeric keypad. I
recall that there is also a method to do this in reverse - given a
character on, say, W
Code points on WindowsFrom: Mike Ayers
> On Windows, it is well known that you can generate a character from its
code point
> by holding down the alt key and typing the code point in decimal, with a
leading 0,
> on the numeric keypad.
Correction: what you generate is not the (Unicode) code point b
Title: Code points on Windows
On Windows, it is well known that you can generate a character from its code point by holding down the alt key and typing the code point in decimal, with a leading 0, on the numeric keypad. I recall that there is also a method to do this in reverse
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