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Started by SGOS, September 30, 2018, 11:10:16 AM

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SGOS

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 01, 2018, 12:08:16 PM
He meant there was no link.
I wondered, so I tried it again, and it worked for me.  Different computers, I suppose.

Cavebear

Quote from: SGOS on October 01, 2018, 01:39:52 PM
I wondered, so I tried it again, and it worked for me.  Different computers, I suppose.

Wait, you are missing the point.  There was no link in your post...  Go back and look.  LOL!
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

SGOS

Quote from: Cavebear on October 01, 2018, 01:45:39 PM
Wait, you are missing the point.  There was no link in your post...  Go back and look.  LOL!
Go back to the first post, and click on "here" (it's the "here" with the blue underline).  A latter post of mine was a cut and paste of the link, and it didn't pick up the hyperlink.

Cavebear

Quote from: SGOS on October 01, 2018, 01:54:25 PM
Go back to the first post, and click on "here" (it's the "here" with the blue underline).  A latter post of mine was a cut and paste of the link, and it didn't pick up the hyperlink.

Wow that was the least visual link I ever saw.  But of course I only saw the later post without it. 

I do appreciate the link.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

SGOS


trdsf

The basic alt-codes under Windows are a very handy thing â€" you may have noticed that I tend to enter a proper em-dash (alt-0151) rather than two hyphens, and prefer the spelling coöperate over cooperate (alt-0246).

There is a difference between the extended alt-codes and the basic ones; I tend to use the extended ones where alt-0227 is ã (alt-227 is usually Ï€ â€" in some systems, it's Ã').

WindowsKey-R will bring up a command prompt; type in charmap and you can see all the available characters.
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan

Cavebear

Quote from: trdsf on October 01, 2018, 03:40:16 PM
The basic alt-codes under Windows are a very handy thing â€" you may have noticed that I tend to enter a proper em-dash (alt-0151) rather than two hyphens, and prefer the spelling coöperate over cooperate (alt-0246).

There is a difference between the extended alt-codes and the basic ones; I tend to use the extended ones where alt-0227 is ã (alt-227 is usually Ï€ â€" in some systems, it's Ã').

WindowsKey-R will bring up a command prompt; type in charmap and you can see all the available characters.

There ARE times I regret not using a PC.  Not many, but some.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Gawdzilla Sama

We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Cavebear

Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Cavebear on October 01, 2018, 04:04:22 PM
Printed, tnx...
The test box is handy, you  can see what the symbol looks like on your box.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Gawdzilla Sama

If you're on a Windoze machine search for "character map". Saves typing.

I have a text file I use for frequently needed symbols.

[spoiler]QHRR-CS5AEV-F5HZN7

&c., &c., &c.
* * * * *
®
§ † ‡ ± â€"  ¦ | |  ° Î" •¶ c    âˆš §
¼ ½ ¾
֠ Ü
Ä€ ā Ä' Ä" Ī Ä« ÅŒ ō Ū   Å« ō
Kōkūtai
Ã¥ ä à â á ã æ ç č è é ê ë í ì î ï ñ ô ö ó Å¡ ù ú û ü Å" ¿
Ã,, É Ê
£ ¥ ¢ ¡ ψ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Letters_with_macron
Ä€   Ä
Çž   ÇŸ
Ç    Ç¡
Ç¢   Ç£
Ḇ   á¸‡
CÌ,,   cÌ,,
Ḏ   á¸
Ä'   Ä"
á¸"   á¸•
Ḗ   á¸—
Ḡ   á¸¡
H̱   áº–
Ī   Ä«
Ḵ   á¸µ
Ḻ   á¸»
Ḹ   á¸¹
MÌ,,   mÌ,,
Ṉ   á¹‰
NÌ,,   nÌ,,
ÅŒ   Å
á¹'   á¹"
Ṑ   á¹'
Ȫ   È«
Ǭ   Ç­
Ȭ   È­
È°   È±
RÌ,,   rÌ,,
Ṟ   á¹Ÿ
Ṝ   á¹
á¹®   á¹¯
Ū   Å«
Ç•   Ç–
Ṻ   á¹»
Ȳ   È³
áº"   áº•
Documentation icon Template documentation
chargé d'affaires
Constitução
ibiblio.org/pha/policy/German-documents-preceding-WWII.pdf
45°52' 24.98" N 9° 15' 14.53" E
36° 56' 59.87" N 127 43° '55.35" E
dadushezhen
[/spoiler]

We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Cavebear

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 01, 2018, 04:18:21 PM
If you're on a Windoze machine search for "character map". Saves typing.

I have a text file I use for frequently needed symbols.

[spoiler]QHRR-CS5AEV-F5HZN7

&c., &c., &c.
* * * * *
®
§ † ‡ ± â€"  ¦ | |  ° Î" •¶ c    âˆš §
¼ ½ ¾
֠ Ü
Ä€ ā Ä' Ä" Ī Ä« ÅŒ ō Ū   Å« ō
Kōkūtai
Ã¥ ä à â á ã æ ç č è é ê ë í ì î ï ñ ô ö ó Å¡ ù ú û ü Å" ¿
Ã,, É Ê
£ ¥ ¢ ¡ ψ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Letters_with_macron
Ä€   Ä
Çž   ÇŸ
Ç    Ç¡
Ç¢   Ç£
Ḇ   á¸‡
CÌ,,   cÌ,,
Ḏ   á¸
Ä'   Ä"
á¸"   á¸•
Ḗ   á¸—
Ḡ   á¸¡
H̱   áº–
Ī   Ä«
Ḵ   á¸µ
Ḻ   á¸»
Ḹ   á¸¹
MÌ,,   mÌ,,
Ṉ   á¹‰
NÌ,,   nÌ,,
ÅŒ   Å
á¹'   á¹"
Ṑ   á¹'
Ȫ   È«
Ǭ   Ç­
Ȭ   È­
È°   È±
RÌ,,   rÌ,,
Ṟ   á¹Ÿ
Ṝ   á¹
á¹®   á¹¯
Ū   Å«
Ç•   Ç–
Ṻ   á¹»
Ȳ   È³
áº"   áº•
Documentation icon Template documentation
chargé d'affaires
Constitução
ibiblio.org/pha/policy/German-documents-preceding-WWII.pdf
45°52' 24.98" N 9° 15' 14.53" E
36° 56' 59.87" N 127 43° '55.35" E
dadushezhen
[/spoiler]

Mac
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Baruch

Mac & Cheese, Chili Mac ... Mac forever.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

trdsf

I just have most of the alphabetic accented character codes memorized out of use.  I still have to look up some of them, though.  And of course, many extended Latin characters aren't simply accessible from the keyboard, alas.  Ä™ should be alt-0281 and Å, should be alt-0322, but nothing comes up that way.

Alt-1000 through Alt-1010 generates ΦΘΩδ∞φε∩≡±≥, which are clearly mathematic symbols. ╥╙╘â•' are Alt-1234 through 1237, and these characters aren't adjacent in the Unicode table.

I think I have some research to do... it's clearly not pulling these codes from the Unicode table, nor do they match up with the DOS or Windows tables.  Weird.

"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan

Baruch

Quote from: trdsf on October 02, 2018, 01:24:08 PM
I just have most of the alphabetic accented character codes memorized out of use.  I still have to look up some of them, though.  And of course, many extended Latin characters aren't simply accessible from the keyboard, alas.  Ä™ should be alt-0281 and Å, should be alt-0322, but nothing comes up that way.

Alt-1000 through Alt-1010 generates ΦΘΩδ∞φε∩≡±≥, which are clearly mathematic symbols. ╥╙╘â•' are Alt-1234 through 1237, and these characters aren't adjacent in the Unicode table.

I think I have some research to do... it's clearly not pulling these codes from the Unicode table, nor do they match up with the DOS or Windows tables.  Weird.

In general, Windows/Office has more than one text format mode.  Unicode being just one.  If you have a .txt already saved in Notepad as Unicode, it will stay in Unicode.  Notepad is monolithic like that (per document).  Wordpad is a odd relic, not quite Word .. I pretty much only use Notepad or Word now.  Another option to mess up your odds of success is saving a document in PDF mode.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.