Miata Mailing List: March 2000, Message #347

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FWIW, Paul, my Mac has [alt] written in very small letters on the very
top of the option key.

Ron and RedFox
Bowling Green, KY

Paul Williamson wrote:
> 
> 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
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Vette City Miata Club
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