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The ï in Zorai
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:18 am
by katriell
To use the special ï character, hold down the ALT key and press 0239 on the number pad.
Should work on Windows XP at least, not sure about other versions / operating systems.
Just a little tip.
EDIT: To access the list of special characters, in Windows XP, click on Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map.
Re: The ï in Zorai
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:58 am
by kibsword
Thanks Kat, I'll try that out for sure!
Re: The ï in Zorai
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:01 pm
by dazman76
Works a treat in Notepad/Word etc., thanks Kat
I remember using that for ASCII in the MS-DOS days, never realised you could enter UNICODE/UTF chars too
Re: The ï in Zorai
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:14 pm
by kurita
katriell wrote:To use the special ï character, hold down the ALT key and press 0239 on the number pad.
Should work on Windows XP at least, not sure about other versions / operating systems.
Just a little tip.
uuuh thanks Katriell, now Zoraï looks like it should
Re: The ï in Zorai
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:37 pm
by alibasil
omg i love you sooooo much, i have been wondering how to do that for yonks
Re: The ï in Zorai
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:00 am
by iwojimmy
my vïewpoïnt stïll twïtches around as ï type ït ïn, but at the end, the character comes out
bïg thankyou to Katriell
Re: The ï in Zorai
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:15 am
by kaetemi
Lol, there are keyboards without a ¨ button?
Re: The ï in Zorai
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:13 am
by dazman76
kaetemi wrote:Lol, there are keyboards without a ¨ button?
*chuckles*, most of them
AFAIK only a handful of european languages use that particular accent
Re: The ï in Zorai
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:40 am
by kaetemi
dazman76 wrote:*chuckles*, most of them
AFAIK only a handful of european languages use that particular accent
Heh, cool
Then, I have a question for you:
I have the following special characters on my keyboard here:
²³&|é@"#'(§^è!ç{à})°-_^¨[$*]ù%´µ£`<>\?,;.:/=+~
Are there characters on those keyboards you are talking about that I don't have?
Re: The ï in Zorai
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:00 pm
by dazman76
From my (UK) point of view, you have a bagload available there
Are most of those single keypresses, or are you using Ctrl+Alt combos to produce them? English uses no accenting at all - so in terms of 'standard keypresses', we have no real special characters. We can get things like éóíúá - those are all by pressing Ctrl+Alt then the key for the roman character being accented. None of them are visible on key faces though - we have alphanumerics, standard roman punctuation, and standard numeric/unit of measure symbols including the Euro on Ctrl+Alt+4.
I don't think I can type the accent on ï on it's own with my keyboard I believe it's an umlaut in germanic languages
However, I've never seen it used with i before, and I don't think it's commonly used in non-germanic languages - could be wrong though