I just posted to another list: On Thursday, August 08, 2002, Jorge
Candeias wrote:
> all characters are accessible by keying down their numeric code while
> pressing the ALT key. The codes can be obtained from a number of
> sources (and vary from laguage pack to language pack, though all
> western european languages are included in just one pack), <...> The
> character ß, for instance, is ALT-0223... so I can write straße
> without problems. :)
Yes, but this works only inside the currently selected code-page, which
is 1-byte (256 chars max). Jorge, using CP1251 (aka ANSI, silimar to
Latin1 aka ISO 8859-1), can type a german ess-zet or an icelandic thorn,
but not a cyrillic hard sign, nor an arabic meem, nor a devanagari
virama.
Which is a pity, since all those chars are usable for other
manipulations in every versions of Windows ever since Win98. Hopefully
the Alt+NumPad trick will be implemented soon in Windows and other
systems allowing general and keyboard- and application-independent
typing of any given Unicode char.
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