Special Polish Capitalized Characters

Wed Sep 4 01:55:41 UTC 2002

George Gasyna wrote:

> I am currently editing a number of essays for an upcoming anthology,
> the subject of which is Polish-American writers and artists. I need
> to find a way to "extract" from my computer (WIN 98, MS WORD 2000) a
> number of Polish capital characters, specifically Z with a dot, Z with
> a slash (like an "accent aigu" [/]), as well as S and C with same. Do
> you have any idea which "ALT +" commands might yield these? For
> instance, [e with /] is ALT + 0233 when one is using a US English
> Keyboard. IS there even a way to do this without installing "Central
> European Fonts" onto Word 2000? Any advice or suggestions would be
> greatly appreciated.

This is a feature of the operating system, which Word 97 and 2000
support. Without the fonts installed, your programs cannot use them, so
yes, you must install the CE fonts. The upside is that it's a relatively
painless procedure (assuming you have your Windows installation CD), and
moreover it will also permit you to install a Polish keyboard driver
that makes using them far easier than pecking out ALT-codes.

If your email program supports the ISO 8859-2 or Windows 1250 encoding,
here's what the characters should look like (alt numbers parenthesized):

A-nasal Ą(165)  ą(185)
C-acute Ć(198)  ć(230)
E-nasal Ę(202)  ę(234)
L-slash Ł(163)  ł(179)
N-acute Ń(209)  ń(241)
O-acute Ó(211)  ó(243)
S-acute Ś(140)  ś(156)
Z-acute Ź(143)  ź(159)
Z-dot   Ż(175)  ż(191)

And here's the top half of the Windows CE code page:

               Š      Ś   Ť   Ž   Ź
128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143

                               š      ś   ť   ž   ź
144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159

     ˇ   ˘   Ł   ¤   Ą   Ś   §   ¨   Š   Ş   Ť   Ź      Ž   Ż
160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175

 °   ą   ˛   ł   ´   ľ   ś   ˇ   ¸   ą   ş   ť   Ľ   ˝   ľ   ż
176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191

 Ŕ   Á   Â   Ă   Ä   Ĺ   Ć   Ç   Č   É   Ę   Ë   Ě   Í   Î   Ď
192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207

 Đ   Ń   Ň   Ó   Ô   Ő   Ö   ×   Ř   Ů   Ú   Ű   Ü   Ý   Ţ   ß
208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223

 ŕ   á   â   ă   ä   ĺ   ć   ç   č   é   ę   ë   ě   í   î   ď
224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239

 đ   ń   ň   ó   ô   ő   ö   ÷   ř   ů   ú   ű   ü   ý   ţ   ˙
240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255

HTH

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--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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