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 | | From: | Fritz Oppliger | | Subject: | umlaute | | Date: | Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:11:24 -0800 |
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 | I tried doing umlaute using ALT-keypad number like so:
ö = 148
but this is the only useful one I can reliably make.
Other strange things happen - I get smileys, window list, change of
window, zoom out... scary!
Do I have to forget about Umlaute? resort to ever more scurrilous
linguistic contortions trying to avoid them?
US keyboard of course.
WinXP
Thanks for any insights
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| | From: | Steven V. Gunhouse | | Subject: | Re: umlaute | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:02:23 GMT |
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| On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:11:24 -0800, Fritz Oppliger
wrote:
> I tried doing umlaute using ALT-keypad number like so:
> ö = 148
> but this is the only useful one I can reliably make.
> Other strange things happen - I get smileys, window list, change of
> window, zoom out... scary!
> Do I have to forget about Umlaute? resort to ever more scurrilous
> linguistic contortions trying to avoid them?
> US keyboard of course.
> WinXP
>
> Thanks for any insights
>
>
What's the hex code? Let me see, 148 decimal is 94 hex, so try typing "94"
and then pressing Alt-x ... hmm, looks like you need to consult a Unicode
character map. I know C4 is Ä, and E4 should be ä, but didn't look far
enough to find o with umlaut.
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| | From: | Fritz Oppliger | | Subject: | Re: umlaute | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:46:57 -0800 |
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| On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:02:23 GMT, Steven V. Gunhouse
wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:11:24 -0800, Fritz Oppliger
> wrote:
>
>> I tried doing umlaute using ALT-keypad number like so:
>> ö = 148
>> but this is the only useful one I can reliably make.
>> Other strange things happen - I get smileys, window list, change of
>> window, zoom out... scary!
>> Do I have to forget about Umlaute? resort to ever more scurrilous
>> linguistic contortions trying to avoid them?
>> US keyboard of course.
>> WinXP
>>
>> Thanks for any insights
>>
>>
>
> What's the hex code? Let me see, 148 decimal is 94 hex, so try typing
> "94" and then pressing Alt-x ... hmm, looks like you need to consult a
> Unicode character map. I know C4 is Ä, and E4 should be ä, but didn't
> look far enough to find o with umlaut.
>
OK lets see... ÄÄ!!
Thanks for the Unicode hint!
tschüss!
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| | From: | Steven V. Gunhouse | | Subject: | Re: umlaute | | Date: | Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:22:22 GMT |
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| On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:46:57 -0800, Fritz Oppliger
wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:02:23 GMT, Steven V. Gunhouse
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:11:24 -0800, Fritz Oppliger
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried doing umlaute using ALT-keypad number like so:
>>> ö = 148
>>> but this is the only useful one I can reliably make.
>>> Other strange things happen - I get smileys, window list, change of
>>> window, zoom out... scary!
>>> Do I have to forget about Umlaute? resort to ever more scurrilous
>>> linguistic contortions trying to avoid them?
>>> US keyboard of course.
>>> WinXP
>>>
>>> Thanks for any insights
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What's the hex code? Let me see, 148 decimal is 94 hex, so try typing
>> "94" and then pressing Alt-x ... hmm, looks like you need to consult a
>> Unicode character map. I know C4 is Ä, and E4 should be ä, but didn't
>> look far enough to find o with umlaut.
>>
> OK lets see... ÄÄ!!
> Thanks for the Unicode hint!
> tschüss!
>
They kind of snuck in the Alt-x without much comment a couple of versions
ago. Provided you can find out the Unicode value for a character, it works
pretty well. Full UTF-16, so even Arabic or some other script which is
included in Unicode. Of course, if your email encoding won't handle the
character, you'll get the alert asking if you want to change to Unicode
UTF-8 so that you can actually use that character ...
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