"Keith (R.K.) Berry" <keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Holding down the Alt key and typing 0169 on the numeric keypad also prints
> ")" in just about any Windoze wp or dtp application, including Outlook
> Express. The Alt, keypad and a four-digit number can produce most of the
> range of a character set. Is this generally known? I only discovered it
> while learning to use PageMaker 5 but haven't seen it mentioned since.
>
alt-numeric keypad for entry of ascii (or other charset) characters
is a holdover from the DOS days... PCs have always done that as far
as I know (which started with the IBM PC 8088, don't know about before
that)
Note that any extended ascii characters (ascii values beyond 127) are
not standard outside the windows world. I would strongly recommend
spelling out Copyright or Copr. (that is what I put on my circuit
boards at work) rather than counting on potentially proprietary
character sets (or iso standards that are not supported on all
platforms in common use). As far as (C) is concerned, I know that
at some point in the past it was _not_ considered a valid representation
of the circle-C symbol. That may have changed, but it's not much
trouble to write out copr.
If you are going to put the copyright symbol on a web page, the
best way (I think) is to do "©" (without the quotes). I
confess, I use one on my web pages, but then I'm not terribly
concerned with the copyright on them.
joey
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