On Thu, 3 May 2001, James Kass wrote:
So, tried using Windows 2000 character map
feature. It's possible to select a single character this way,
but for some reason a CR-LF is added when copying with
Control-V. (This is true even with displayable characters
or character strings,
Doug Ewell wrote:
Memorizing the 128 8-bit characters above ASCII is decimal
was (relatively) not too difficult. Even today, when typing
á é í ó ú, I am likely to use Alt+160, Alt+130, Alt+161,
Alt+162, and Alt+163 repectively (as I just did).
Doing this with the whole BMP is quite
BTW, anybody knows how to input characters on Windows using the hex
codepoint? I know it's good for my brain to do the exercise of going from
hexadecimal to decimal, but it is still a pain to have to type ALT-DECIMAL
when all I have in my book is hex. That would be a reason for providing the
Yves Arrouye wrote:
BTW, anybody knows how to input characters on Windows using the hex
codepoint? I know it's good for my brain to do the exercise
of going from
hexadecimal to decimal, but it is still a pain to have to
type ALT-DECIMAL
when all I have in my book is hex. That would be a
John Cowan wrote:
There is no general way in pre-W2000 versions of Windows to
enter characters using Unicode codes.
Funny thing... It seems that we are both right in part: it depends on the
application.
I have Windows NT 4.0, but installed Office 2000. In Outlook 2000, I can
type ALT+01488
Marco Cimarosti wrote:
John Cowan wrote:
There is no general way in pre-W2000 versions of Windows to
enter characters using Unicode codes.
Windows 3.1 and any DOS hex editor? Cumbersome...
Funny thing... It seems that we are both right in part: it depends on the
application.
I have
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
But the same thing does not work in, e.g., the Notepad program coming with
NT 4. Crazily enough, it also doesn't work in some other Office 2000 apps,
like Word.
It also doesn't work in Word 2000 over Windows 2000 which my colleagues
are using for
Roozbeh Pournader wrote: (May 03, 2001 12:58 PM)
It also doesn't work in Word 2000 over Windows 2000 which my colleagues
are using for preparing their documents. Anyone knows a method? (It's
really a pain that Microsoft's Farsi keyboard doesn't have ZWNJ on it.)
Thought it should be
On Thu, 3 May 2001, James Kass wrote:
So, tried using Windows 2000 character map
feature. It's possible to select a single character this way,
but for some reason a CR-LF is added when copying with
Control-V. (This is true even with displayable characters
or character strings,
In a message dated 2001-05-03 11:09:38 Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Special characters on PCs have been entered in this fashion
since before Windows, and this might have been one of the
reasons that decimal numbers were originally chosen for
HTML notation -- users
From: Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, I tried my own advice, and this is the macro code I got back:
Selection.TypeText Text:=ChrW(8204)
I don't claim to understand this code entirely, but it does seem to
work for Word 2000 under Windows 2000. That is, setting the cursor
between two
In a message dated 2001-04-27 4:22:51 Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1bc Why don't you make the next print edition of the Unicode
1bc standard (not to mention online) with Unicodepoints
1bc in decimal as well as hex?
In fact, I do not see any reason to use hex numbers
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