Special Polish Capitalized Characters

[George Gasyna]

A thousand thanks Paul. That is exactly the info I needed!

George Gasyna
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

> 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 ¡(165)  ±(185)
> C-acute Æ(198)  æ(230)
> E-nasal Ê(202)  ê(234)
> L-slash £(163)  ³(179)
> N-acute Ñ(209)  ñ(241)
> O-acute Ó(211)  ó(243)
> S-acute ¦(140)  ¶(156)
> Z-acute ¬(143)  ¼(159)
> Z-dot   ¯(175)  ¿(191)
>
> And here's the top half of the Windows CE code page:
>
>  €      ‚   ƒ   „   …   †   ‡   ˆ   ‰   ©   ‹   ¦   «   ®   ¬
> 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143
>
>     ‘   ’   “   ”   •   –   —   ˜   ™   ¹   ›   ¶   »   ¾   ¼
> 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159
>
>      ·   ¢   £   ¤   ¡   ¦   §   ¨   ©   ª   «   ¬   ­   ®   ¯
> 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175
>
>  °   ±   ²   ³   ´   µ   ¶   ·   ¸   ±   º   »   ¥   ½   µ   ¿
> 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191
>
>  À   Á   Â   Ã   Ä   Å   Æ   Ç   È   É   Ê   Ë   Ì   Í   Î   Ï
> 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207
>
>  Ð   Ñ   Ò   Ó   Ô   Õ   Ö   ×   Ø   Ù   Ú   Û   Ü   Ý   Þ   ß
> 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223
>
>  à   á   â   ã   ä   å   æ   ç   è   é   ê   ë   ì   í   î   ï
> 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239
>
>  ð   ñ   ò   ó   ô   õ   ö   ÷   ø   ù   ú   û   ü   ý   þ   ÿ
> 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"
> http://pbg-translations.com

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