Characters and accents

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
 --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67@> wrote:

Carol:
> > 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!

Geoff:
My back up alternative I suggested is at the link below:

http://www.edu.dudley.gov.uk/ict/software/word/accents.htm
 
Steve:

> For example -
> 
> ALT+0049 = 1 
> ALT+0065 = A
> ALT+0097 = a
> 
> Just passing it along.

Geoff:
This is the standard ASCII set, which we used to use in word processing 
back in pre-WYSIWYG days. Using BASIC, for example, CHR$(66) would 
produce upper case "B".

ASCII 65-90 cover upper case A-Z, ASCII 97-122 lower case. Other codes 
cover numerals and punctuation. Once you got beyond 122, the codes
varied according to the manufacturer's system. For example, the UK
standard school computers in the late 1980s/early 1990s were BBC Acorn
machines and the ASCII 120s beyond "z" controlled text colour.