LL-L "Technica" 2004.12.14 (03) [E]

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From: James Campbell <james at zolid.com>
Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2004.12.13 (04) [E]

Mike S wrote:

> How do the Unicode fonts work??!! If you bring up the character map it'll
> give you the "code" (like the ALT + XXXX), but these are different - is
> there a way to enter them easily like the ALT + method, or do you just
have
> to copy the characters you want and paste them?

The ALT+xxxx method still works for Unicode characters, but there are some
gotchas. Firstly, Character Map tells you the Unicode value of a character,
but in hex. You'll have to convert it to decimal first. Then you can do the
ALT thing, providing you're using a font that contains that character. (This
is all for Win xp.)

Finally, although this works in Word, I couldn't get it to work in Outlook
Express. Try typing ALT+0256 in Word and you'll get Capital A with macron.
ALT+1100 will give you the Russian soft sign. And so on.

Hope this helps.

James

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