Miata Mailing List: March 2000, Message #213

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Here is another description of NASI/ASCII characters:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,906238,00.html

In most MS Office products you can insert the following accents:

accent acute (')
accent grave (`)
tilde (~)
caret (^)
colon (:)

Above the following characters very easily:

A, a, E, e, I, i, O, o, U, u, Y, y

To accent any of the above letters with the above accents, hold down the
control key and type the accent character (nothing will appear on the
screen), release the accent and ctrl key then type the letter.  The accented
character will now appear.

Hope that helps the WinTel people.

Tom Blough &
"Molly"  Red '99 LP
Avon, CT
Nutmeg Miata Newsletter Editor
mailto:tblough@earthlink.net



> -----Original Message-----
> From: miata@realbig.com [mailto:miata@realbig.com]On Behalf Of Paul
> Williamson
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 8:01 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Special characters (NMC)
>
>
> At 03/02/2000 04:40 AM -0500, Albert Franquiz wrote:
> >FYI: there's a list of key combinations listed here for
> characters like the
> >ñ or á
> >http://www.umass.edu/langctr/altnum.htm
> >
> >I'm not sure but I think these are only for Windoze machines,
>
> They are the ANSI characters.  You can always tell ANSI from
> ASCII by the
> way they are generated: ANSI = ALT+0nnn; ASCII = ALT+nnn (no
> leading zero).
>
> For example, to get the "cents" sign, it would be:
> ASCII = ALT+155 = ¢
> ANSI = ALT+0162 = ¢
>
> But remember that the display (or presentation) of the character is
> dependent on the font being used.
>
> Paul and the Splendidly Striped Screamer
> mailto:Paul_Williamson@bigfoot.com
> homepage: http://www.bigfoot.com/~Paul_Williamson/
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> Never drive any faster than your guardian angel can fly.
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