RE: Code points on Windows

From: Mike Ayers (mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 18:19:49 EST

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    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
    > Behalf Of Murray Sargent
    > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:01 PM

    > WordPad on Windows 2000 and XP support Alt+x. Win95 and Win98 WordPads
    > don't, since they used earlier RichEdit's than version 3.0.
    > Version 3.0
    > doesn't have the toggle: Alt+x converts a hex code string to
    > the Unicode
    > character; Alt+X does the reverse. Word 2002 added the Alt+x facility
                 ^^^^^
                 Alt+Shift+X

    > with the nice wrinkle of making it a toggle. Accordingly RichEdit 4.0
    > (used in Office 2002) and RichEdit 4.1 (used in Windows XP SP1 WordPad
    > and later) also have the toggle, as does RichEdit 5.0 shipped with
    > Office 2003.

            I'm sure he knew that - his fingers just forgot. ;-)

    /|/|ike



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