Yearly TV Licence? ...Really? (Side Track)

[Steve]

---  "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> bboyminn wrote:
> > 
> > For your convenience- 
> > 
> > To type the '£' Pound sign, hold down the ALT key and 
> > press 0163 on the numeric keypad.
> > 
> > For the EURO '€' hold down the ALT key and press 0128.
> > 
> > For the CENT '¢' hold down the ALT key and press 0162.
> > 
> > For the Japanese Yen '¥' hold down the ALT key and press 
> > 0165.
> > 
> > This has been a FREE Public Service Announcement. 
> 
> Carol responds:
> 
> Interesting! Just out of curiosity, how did you learn all 
> this and do you keep a list of these codes, or whatever 
> they're called, beside your keyboard?
> 

bboyminn:

They are the numeric equivalent for the standard ANSI 
character set. I have a programmer's text editor that has 
a list of the codes, though long ago I had a list on paper.

For example the ANSI code for the letter 'A' is 65, so ALT
0065. Let's see if it works... 'A' ...boom, there it is.

The Left single quote mark is 0096 .... ` ...see, it works.

> Carol:
>
> If I needed to type a pound sign, I would probably just 
> cut and paste it from the Internet, like so: £ (I'm seeing
> if this works!)
> 

bboyminn:

And...that's easier than ALT 0163. I have a couple of small
pieces of paper taped to my monitor that have the ALT codes
for characters I frequently need, so it is only from 
repetition that I remember them at all. I frequently post
in various UK groups, usually UK Audio/Stereo/Home Cinema
groups. So, I need the Pound sign pretty often, and since
much of the discussion involves continental Europe, the EURO
sign come up often too. 


> Carol:
> I tried to do it from Word but couldn't figure out what the
> Help menu was talking about, .... (You'd think that the 
> pound and Euro symbols would be included in the Insert menu's
> symbols section. Maybe they are in Word 2007, but I have 
>Word 2000.)
>

bboyminn:

This is more difficult in Word because it depends on the 
current font or typeface having those symbols, which they
might not. 

Though, you are right, you should at least be able to find
the Pound sign in the INSERT list. I've got an old version of
Word too. 

Though, when the Insert List comes up, you have to pick the
right font again. It likely comes up with Symbols, but those
'symbols' might not translate directly to the Internet.

Also, if your Character Encoding View is set to Unicode instead
of Western, even the codes I've entered here won't view 
right. There are a lot of complicating factors here.

> Carol:
>
> BTW, Yahoo won't let me use your method. ... 

bboyminn:

I always post on-line, in the actual Yahoo Group, and it
lets me enter these codes all the time, as this post here
clearly attests.

Also, I quickly opened MS-Word (ver 2000; 9.0.2720) and had
no problem entering ALT 0163 and ALT 0128 to get the British
Pound mark and the EURO sign. 

The only explanation I have is that you must have bad Karma.
(Its' a joke)

Steve/bboyminn