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| Thread ID: 65512 | 2006-01-20 20:15:00 | tutorial:Using characters not seen on your keyboard. | Eric (378) | PC World Chat |
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| 422874 | 2006-01-20 20:15:00 | Have you ever wanted to use special characters or symbols in your text but could not find them anywhere on your keyboard and not sure how to put it in? Let say you would like a question mark upside down, ¿ (it beats me why anybody would like to use a upside down question mark, but that is beside the point) anyway first press down the "Alt" key on the keyboard, then with another finger type 0191 on the numerical key pad on the very right side of your keyboard, then take you finger off the "Alt" key, and bingo you have or should have a question upside down, (now press the "left arrow" and then press "Delete" key, as I said it is useless as far as I see.) but you can use more useful ones like. Before this will work you need the "Num Lock" light on your PC keyboard going. To turn it on or off press the "Num Lock" key. Euro dollar sign, € "Alt" then 0128, Cent sign, ¢ "Alt" then 0162, UK pound sign, £ "Alt" then 0163, Copyright sign, © "Alt" then 0169, Degree sign ° "Alt" then 0176, Plus or minus sign ± "Alt" then 0177, Square ² "Alt" then 0178, Cube ³ "Alt" then 0179, Micro, µ "Alt" then 0181, Half, ½ "Alt" then 0189. Three quarters, ¾ "Alt" then 0190. You can see more characters to use, if you look from the character Map program, From desktop Start =>Programs =>Accessories => (Character Map) or (System Tools => Character Map). Providing Character Map has been installed on your computer. From desktop Start => Setting => Control Panel => Add/Remove Programs => Windows Setup (tab) => Windows Systems => details. |
Eric (378) | ||
| 422875 | 2006-01-20 20:31:00 | ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Wow... That sounds so hard... I just use KCharSelect (www.millerton.co.nz) when i want to type½½ÒØßäáëóñðøø etc. There's also a setting using engish english, as opposed to yanky english, where upon the keyboard will spit out odd characters instead of what one might expect.. As i don't use "£" that much, i'd rather use yanky english |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 422876 | 2006-01-21 00:20:00 | ¿You are not Spanish, Eric? That ¿ at the start of a sentence warns a speaker that it is a question, so he can use the correct intonation. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 422877 | 2006-01-21 00:43:00 | ....That ¿ at the start of a sentence warns a speaker that it is a question, so he can use the correct intonation.Thats much more sensible than silly English! I always wondered what use "¿" had other than novelty, now i know :D |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 422878 | 2006-01-21 00:46:00 | I've seen it used in one other place ... if a character had been received wrognly over a serial line (detected by a parity error) some software would put an "¿" in that place. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 422879 | 2006-01-21 01:07:00 | Or it also comes in handy for pics like: ^ ^ 0¿0¬ :_: |
Myth (110) | ||
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