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Postby josh_manga » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:47 pm

Hey, has anyone seen a complete catalog of the Alt key + Number Pad sequences? Does such a thing exist? I'm talking about the special characters that are hidden in the computer that can be used by holding the Alt key and pressing a sequence of numbers on the Num Pad.

such as: Ä╛Θ▄

It seems to be different in the message box than it is in Microsoft Word...

For instance here: Alt 3 is ♥
And in Word: Alt 3 is ♥
But here: 339 is S
and in Word: 339 is Å“

Is this a difference in coding? HTML?
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Postby Tsukuyomi » Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:56 am

Here we go http://www.alt-codes.net/ ^^

I found that some are different on vB 4.. Probably, unrelated, but for some reason, some symbols show up differently lol
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Postby MomentOfInertia » Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:04 am

Cool. Thanks, Tsukuyomi.
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Postby josh_manga » Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:23 am

Thanks!
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Postby Kaligraphic » Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:23 am

The link Tsukuyomi posted shows the extended ASCII characters. These are entered as ALT+{0-255}

You can also enter Unicode characters in the same way, by starting the decimal number with a 0. You can see a list of available characters here.
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Postby mechana2015 » Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:46 pm

Weird question... do Al codes work on mac? They don't seem to.
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Postby Kaligraphic » Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:56 pm

Macs work a bit differently, but a quick google finds this: http://macbiblioblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/entering-unicode-text-and-symbols.html
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Postby mechana2015 » Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:04 pm

oh ok, just use the charachter palette
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Postby Slater » Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:20 am

And then there's unicode... For when one byte just isn't enough to say it, with feeling!
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/a.htm
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