Special Character Codes 1

[sysadmin123]

You know how MS included extra characters by hitting alt then typing in a number. I'm having trouble find a list of all possible characters to hand out to my users. Has anyone came across this?

 

[eyec]

you mean ¢£¥?ƒ

these are the ASCII codes, do a google and there are probably lists available on the internet.

or you could just type them all out and make your own list.
ALT
123456789. . .
??????•??????????? and so on

 

[bcastner]

http://www.vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/charset.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx

 

[sysadmin123]

Thank Bcastner!

While it wasn't pretty I was able to reformat it and make it work

 

[linney]

http://www.les.aston.ac.uk/chars.html

 

[bcastner]

One set of cautions worth noting:

http://members.aol.com/dwise1/sprachen/keypad.html

But what is interesting is that there is no good answer to this question unless you muck with the current Code Page in use and other esoteric issues.

See for example, the range of utilities offered:

http://alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_fonts.html

Or a discussion of the underlying issues:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=KeybrdDesign

I count myself lucky that the key I strike appears on the screen, and in printouts, as what I intended any more. See:

http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp/things/Characters/chars.html

 

[torturedmind]

what about character map?

kilroy
philippines

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

 

[bcastner]

Discussed in my first post, first link.

 

[micker377]

Download and play with "AllChars for Windows" (

http://allchars.zwolnet.com).

Free. Sits in the taskbar and you call it up to find the combination you want.