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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 11/10/2004 : 08:22:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
(once I figure out umlauds, I'm gonna be dangerous.)
Hey, Dancer. If you use a fairly new version of Windows, you can get a whole boatload of characters by going to start-->run... and then running charmap.exe ("char" being short for character). It will call up a giant chart of various characters, from š to æ to ©. If you click on a character you want (e.g. ü), you'll see in the lower right corner its keystroke (in the format Alt+NNNN where N=a number; the ü is Alt+0252). If you then hold down the Alt key and type that 4-digit code on your keypad, you'll get the character you want!
Not all characters have this code, and the hundreds of people here at SFN who know more about computing than I do probably have a much better system for doing this ("just hold down the u-key while thinking about the caracter you want"), but this'll let you get your u-umlaut! |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26021 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2004 : 11:15:05 [Permalink]
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But it may only do the umlauts (or other characters) for people who're also using a Windows system. Mac users (such as Kil) may see nothing but gibberish. And so one would want to turn to HTML, where the common "odd" characters are fairly universal amongst browsers. Lists of "HTML Character Entities" are all over the Web.
To get "überfundie™," one would type in "überfundie™" using HTML entities. |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2004 : 12:35:46 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
But it may only do the umlauts (or other characters) for people who're also using a Windows system. Mac users (such as Kil) may see nothing but gibberish. And so one would want to turn to HTML, where the common "odd" characters are fairly universal amongst browsers. Lists of "HTML Character Entities" are all over the Web.
To get "überfundie™," one would type in "überfundie™" using HTML entities.
See?!? I knew some HTML-saavy person would trump me! Hmph.  |
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