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 an
At 9:20 AM +0400 5/4/01, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
>I do it much easier. In Word XP try the following:
>Insert/Symbol/Special Characters
>Choose "No-Width Optional Break"
>Then press the button "Shortcut key" and associate with it whatever
>combination you like.
>I use Alt+J because it is easy to rem
> 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 st
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
> bet
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
At 12:28 AM +0430 5/4/01, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>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 W
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, unfor
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
Mike Ayers wrote:
>Please double check that. On my machine they appear to be numbers
>20001 through 20006. It would be interesting if we were getting different
>characters on the same keystrokes...
Oops, 20001 through 20006 is right, and *WordPad*, not Word.
On Monday, I downloaded a partial
> From: Roozbeh Pournader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> 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 d
> From: James Kass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> In Windows Millennium Edition, the ALT+NCR method works
> in Word without Office. These characters: "両丢丣两严並" were
> entered from the keyboard in that fashion and are decimal
> numbers 2 through 20005.
Please double check that. On
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 fo
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 h
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
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-
> when all I have in my book is hex. That would be a rea
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-
when all I have in my book is hex. That would be a reason for providing the
decimal valu
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
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