Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin <antonio at tuvalkin dot web dot pt> wrote:
> Yes, but this works only inside the currently selected code-page,
> which is 1-byte (256 chars max). Jorge, using CP1251 (aka ANSI,
> silimar to Latin1 aka ISO 8859-1), can type a german ess-zet or an
> icelandic thorn, but not a cyrillic hard sign, nor an arabic meem,
> nor a devanagari virama.
You are thinking of CP1252. CP1251 is the Windows code page for
Cyrillic.
> Which is a pity, since all those chars are usable for other
> manipulations in every versions of Windows ever since Win98. Hopefully
> the Alt+NumPad trick will be implemented soon in Windows and other
> systems allowing general and keyboard- and application-independent
> typing of any given Unicode char.
Windows 2000 and XP support a solution involving Alt+X and hexadecimal
code points (more convenient for Unicode than the decimal numbers used
with Alt+NumPad). Unfortunately, different Windows applications support
Alt+X mechanisms in different ways, and some don't support it at all
(e.g. Notepad).
You just missed a recent thread on this list about ISO 14755, which
describes an Alt+NumPad-like mechanism that solves this problem once and
for all, but which has not yet been adopted in any widespread manner.
SC UniPad 0.99, to be released soon, will have its own mechanism in
which Ctrl+Q pops up a tiny window where you can enter a Unicode code
point in hex. But of course this only works in UniPad, not in the rest
of Windows, so unless you use UniPad as your general-purpose editor and
cut and paste into other programs, this may not be the solution for you.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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