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| 11 Nov 2012 02:34 PM |
The title may be confusing, so I'll attempt to explain.
One time I saw this thread that had a "colourful" word in it.
I noticed that the "u" had no tail thingy (i dunno) It looked like a lowercase-sized uppercase u (U).
I've tried to make this as simple as I could.
I was just wondering how you do it. |
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abobao
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| 11 Nov 2012 02:40 PM |
| Well can you demonstrate a fake "u" for me? I just wanted to use it for something. |
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| 11 Nov 2012 02:41 PM |
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i gots all teh swagly swag |
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| 11 Nov 2012 02:43 PM |
On personal computers running the Microsoft Windows or DOS operating systems, additional characters to those available in the current keyboard layout can be typed using an Alt code: pressing and holding the Alt key while entering a character code with the keyboard's numeric keypad.[note 1]
Often this is the best or only method many computer users know for entering non-ASCII characters. Due to its popularity, the input method has been duplicated, including the use of obsolete code pages, to other operating systems. Many Wikipedia articles on various characters will include how to type that character using Alt codes for code page 437.
Originally in MS-DOS, the user could hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. The BIOS would turn this directly into the character code of the same value, which (if the program did not interpret as a command) would place that same code on the screen, thus displaying that character from the current code page. For systems using English, this is code page 437. For most other systems using the Latin alphabet, this is code page 850. For a complete list, see code page.
These numbers became so well known and memorized by computer users that Microsoft was forced to preserve them when it transitioned Windows to use the Windows-1252 and similar international sets. Holding Alt and typing three digits (first one non-zero) would attempt to translate the code from CP437 to the matching glyph in the Windows code page. A leading 0 (zero) and then a number would produce the character from the Windows code page.
For instance, the combination Alt+161 yields "í" (Latin letter i with acute accent) which is at 161 in CP437 and CP850. Alt+0161 yields the character "¡" (inverted exclamation) which is at 161 in Windows-1252.
When Windows transitioned to Unicode the same thing had happened: the 0-leading codes had become so well known that a third method needed to be invented to produce Unicode code points. Although CP1252 is quite close to the start of Unicode and it would seem logical to just allow larger numbers to be typed, other international sets did not match. In addition some users were accustomed to the composition exiting after the third digit without releasing Alt, and numbers larger than 255 being translated modulus 256. To enable the third method, a user must set or create the registry key HKCU\Control Panel\Input Method\EnableHexNumpad with type REG_SZ to value 1 and reboot (logging out and logging back in is sufficient). Once the registry key is set, the following method can be used to enter Unicode codepoints:
Keep the Alt key pressed. Press the "+" key on the numeric keypad. With the Alt key still pressed, type the hexadecimal number using the numeric keypad for digits 0-9 and the normal keys for a-f.
For example, Alt+11b will produce ě (e with caron).
The transition to Unicode actually made the older legacy Alt codes (the ones with no leading zero) more reliable, as all the glyphs in the legacy code pages have matching glyphs in Unicode, so they all work.
If Num Lock is disabled, attempting an Alt code may cause unexpected results in some applications. For example, Alt+4 can be taken as Alt+←, causing a web browser to go back one page.
Many laptops do not have a separate numeric keypad; however, the Fn key can be used to turn certain keys into a numeric keypad. There usually is a key called Num lock to "shift" certain keys to act as if they were the numeric keypad keys. For example, on keyboards where there is no dedicated num-pad (mostly found on small-medium laptops and netbooks), the following scheme is very common
Yes yes, it's copy and pasted. |
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