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Title: Overstrike characters (diacritical marks)
Post by: Mr Earl on January 19, 2006, 02:09:44 PM
How do you get a control in a dialog to accept these overstrike characters?
~ over the n of manana
Title: Re: Overstrike characters (diacritical marks)
Post by: Tedd on January 20, 2006, 01:23:03 PM
I don't think it's so much a function of the dialog as the operating system.
Assuming it will accept the character, and there is a glyph for it, there shouldn't be a problem.
Try holding down ALT (left; not AltGr) and type the character code on the numberpad (the separate one, not the digits above the letters) and then release alt.
The code for ñ is 164
Title: Re: Overstrike characters (diacritical marks)
Post by: Mr Earl on January 20, 2006, 01:58:53 PM
Than you Tedd.  That works.  Where can I find a list of those codes?
Title: Re: Overstrike characters (diacritical marks)
Post by: Tedd on January 20, 2006, 02:13:57 PM
You can either try searching for an ascii code map, except that those characters are 'extended' and so depend on the code-page selected.
The charactermap application (one of the windows tools) will show you, but the codes are in hex so you'd need to convert them. Plus it depends on the font!
Or, here's a little application I made earlier :green (Though I haven't got around to finishing it ::))


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Title: Re: Overstrike characters (diacritical marks)
Post by: Mr Earl on January 20, 2006, 02:56:31 PM
Cool little program!  Thanks Tedd, I like that chart, just what I needed.
Title: Re: Overstrike characters (diacritical marks)
Post by: ThoughtCriminal on January 21, 2006, 02:01:22 AM
http://www.lookuptables.com/
Title: Re: Overstrike characters (diacritical marks)
Post by: Mr Earl on January 21, 2006, 10:31:00 AM
Thanks TC.  My old ASCII table didn't have the Extended Codes.