Re: Inserting accent marks
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 8, 2002, 10:10 |
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, David Starner wrote:
> >Many accented chars. are available
> >in ASCII (nos. up to 255), though not all of them transmit to everyone, e.g.
> >Alt+0154 š (s-hacek).
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> That's because they aren't in ASCII - ASCII is a 7-bit code, 0-177, including
> characters only for English. Latin 1 added accented characters for western
> Europe, and Microsoft added stuff like š and the Euro into the space Latin-1
> used for control characters that Windows doesn't need.
MS didn't add any char at 353. MS added a few chars into the upper control
characters section of Latin 1 (ISO8859-1) creating WinLatin-1. I get the
s hacek as control U grave. (That is ^Ugrave, except when I move the
cursor across it, it skips the U.)
Tristan
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