Typing tildes and all that (Was: Bitter winter)

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> Carol again:
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> Ah. I see the problem, I think. I keep NumLock turned off because I don't use the number keypad and find the green light annoying. However, I typed ALT + 241 and got ± (plus or minus) rather than n with a tilde.
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> But, really, it's too much trouble when I can much more easily use Word's Insert menu in the unlikely event that I need the character ñ (cut and pasted from Word).
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> Carol, trying to imagine what life was like for the first computer users who had to resort to ASCII!
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Steve:

Remember, you have to type all FOUR numbers; 0241 is not the same as 241. The '±' character should be 0177 (ALT 0177). It has to be ZERO 241 or ZERO 177. 

I use mostly Currency (£,¥, €), square², cube³, degree°, and plus/minus±.

Though not well known, the Euro ( € ) is ALT 0128. 

Steve/bboyminn