Re: number padless?

From: ChiGuy (chiguy3@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 09 2010 - 13:18:35 CDT

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    Ok, well I just tried both tricks out in WordPad, and they both work in
    both.
    Neither worked in Notepad. Neither worked in the text area of Paint.
    I am connecting WordPad to your RichEdit comment and the fact that it saves
    as .rtf, correct?

    On a related note, you know I brought this up because a new laptop I am
    considering does not have a number pad, not even in tandem with the FN key
    on the letters.
    Well another odd bug/feature is that the function keys, F1-F12, are
    secondary, and used with FN only. Their other uses, like with a media
    player, are primary, and do not require the FN key. So if the F5 key has
    the play button, it would play the player by itself, and if you wanted to
    press F5, you'd need the FN key. Even to close a window, you must press
    FN-Alt-F4. Anyone else noticed this? Any way to toggle?

    -D

    On 9 August 2010 01:03, Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> wrote:

    > The Alt-x trick Murray mentioned is specific to MS Office applications or
    > to applications that use the RichEdit control. The ctrl-~ + n trick is also
    > specific to MS Office products and RichEdit.
    >
    >
    >
    > Peter
    >
    >
    >
    > *From:* unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] *On
    > Behalf Of *ChiGuy
    > *Sent:* Friday, August 06, 2010 8:20 PM
    > *To:* Murray Sargent
    > *Cc:* Unicode Mailing List
    > *Subject:* Re: number padless?
    >
    >
    >
    > oh, duh, not the function key, that makes more sense.
    >
    > Well I tried that here in FF, and did not work, but did in Wordpad, so I
    > guess it's another MS or Windows situation, right?
    >
    > Well that is better than before, and it led me to find out much more about
    > Unicode. So thanks again!
    >
    > On 6 August 2010 22:19, Murray Sargent <murrays@exchange.microsoft.com>
    > wrote:
    >
    > Type F1 alt+x, where F1 means the letter F key followed by the 1 key, not
    > Function key 1. U+00F1 is the Unicode value of ñ. In general to type in a
    > character by its Unicode value, type in the hex value and then alt+x. E.g.,
    > to type in math italic a, type 1D44E alt+x , which gives 𝑎.
    >
    >
    >
    > Murray
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    >

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