Re: Anon and on

Christophe Bachmann wrote:


Reinstating the edh, ash, and thorn would be laudable, but the long-s is perhaps a little over the top, I'd rather have one glyph for one letter and not the ij,uv, uu for w, and long short s confusion which can be cute but don't make for a good legibility.
As for ligatures, these are useful in well typeset books but not in plain-text media.

For those who want to try their hands the symbols are accessible via the alt trick, pressing <alt> and the following numeric keypad keys before releasing the <alt> key :

CAP. Edh : Ð, 208
lwc. edh : ð, 240
CAP. Thorn : Þ, 222
lwc. thorn : þ, 254
CAP. Aesc : Æ, 198
lwc. aesc : æ, 230

Note: make sure num lock is on and that you input the leading zero: num-lock, press and hold <alt>, type 0-1-6-7 on the numeric keypad, release alt to get §.

Character codes from 128 to 255 will give you a lot of the common european accented characters and extra letters. Eth (Ð, ð)and thorn (Þ, þ) are still current in several Nordic languages, as is the slashed o (Ø, ø). The German double-s ß is there but the long-s, sort of an f without the crossbar, is missing, presumably too archaic.

For the technical among us, the degree symbol °, greek mu µ for micro-things and old-school fractions ¼ ½ ¾ all have their uses.

I have a handy quick reference: I use Textpad as a text editor which has a clip library feature, the contents of which can be shown in a separate pane alongside the text being edited. One of the supplied clip libraries is ANSI characters, and I can just double-click to drop the character at the text cursor, or right-click and copy to drop it into another application's text window. Saves all that tedious mucking about with alt-key combinations.

Some explanation as to why the ANSI character set provides all the screen-compatible characters you can use is on the page below
http://www.alanwood.net/demos/ansi.html

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