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- From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
- Subject: Re: How to generate the complete character set
- Message-ID: <BzJEu6.7K@sounds.wa.com>
- Sender: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
- Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
- Organization: SoundSoftware, Bellevue, WA, USA
- References: <1992Dec6.121136.22447@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:56:29 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- Sean Lamont writes
- [...]
- | I have discovered using various text-processing things, that much to
- | my chagrin it is unobvious how to generate the complete extended
- | character set. Most of the characters I have been successful in
- | generating. (for example, "a + backtick" (character 129) can be
- | generated with ALT-i A. However, a number of them I have not been
- | successful in generating.
-
- Prefix Accent Type Characters
- Alt+a dieresis
- Alt+e eg...
- Alt+i grave
- Alt+n circumflex?
- Alt+u umlaut
- Alt+, cedilla
- Alt+^ circumflex
-
- Just in case you can't read the special characters after they've traversed the
- Internet, valid characters which can be prefixed are a,c,e,i,n,o,u,& y
-
- So, counting the capitol and lower case characters as unique (they do have
- separate font entries) there are 53 international characters above which can be
- typed from the NeXT keyboard using the 7 prefixes.
-
- I think that some applications do not accept these prefixes. Could be due to
- things like e-macs bindings getting in the way, but I'm not sure.
- --
- Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
- BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Sound Consulting and Signal Processing Software
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