Bitter winter

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > > Carol, who was hoping to type "Gracias, senor," correctly spelled!
> > 
> > Geoff:
> > Have been digging around a bit... one suggestion: ALT+SHIFT
> > together, then ~, then the letter.
> > 
> > There are others if that doesn't work, excluding re-programming
> > your machine with an axe ( as per "Hitchhiker's Guide to the
> > Galaxy").
> > :-(
> >
> Carol responds:
> 
> Thanks, Geoff, but I'm afraid that those tactics don't work with my PC. I even tried them in Word, but alt N took me to the Insert Menu and alt/shift plus tilde did nothing (except a plain n when I typed n). Of course, in Word, I can just use the Insert menu.
> 
> Carol, who is too worried about her car's transmission to be anxious about a tilde!
>


Steve:

I don't know about your computer, but on mine the text editing window is using what appears to be a Courier New font. If you got to the Windows Character Map (Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map, you will literally see the character map for selected fonts. 

If you select a character with your mouse, it that character can be reproduced on the keyboard, you will see something like Alt+0211, and here is the character that combination produces "Ó". 

I'm frequently on discussion board in Europe so I frequently need non-standard characters, so I've got a small list posted next to my computer of commonly needed characters.

To produce the character, hold down the ALT key, then while holding, press the number sequence on the number keypad; do NOT use the Plus sign, just ALT and the number sequence. It has to be the number keypad on the right, and not the numbers across the top.

ALT+0162 = ¢
ALT+0163 = £
ALT+177 = ±
ALT+0188 = ¼
ALT+0189 = ½

ALT+211 = Ó
ALT+241 = ñ
ALT+250 = ú

Not every letter in the font set can be reproduces in this manner, only the first 256 characters. And any character, up to that point, can be reproduced. 

For example -

ALT+0049 = 1 
ALT+0065 = A
ALT+0097 = a

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn