Re: Regarding retirees applying for new mortgages.


"Harry Thompson" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|
| "Rumpelstiltskin" <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:2djfo354nf4d9uhdsc21usrrs2k7tim9er@xxxxxxxxxx
| > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:28:42 GMT, "Emmet Galsworthy."
| > <ej.galsworthy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >
| > <snip>
| >
| >>Are you in the U.S? I can't find the little stress mark on my
keyboard.
| >>I
| >>think that even with a word like metier, for instance, the emphasis
sign
| >>is often omitted here.
| > <snip>
| >
| >
| > You can probably get most of those characters from the
| > extended ascii set, characters 128 to 255, of which there's
| > a table at:
| > http://www.codesascii.com/
| > You get them by holding down the alt key while you
| > press the three keys for the code on you NUMERIC
| > keypad, not the numbers that are in a line above the
| > letters on your typewriter keyboard. You may have to
| > have "number lock" on for some of them.
| >
| > For example, the e accent grave is 138 on that
| > table, so for "metière", you'd type the "met" then
| > hold down the "alt" key as you press the numbers
| > 1, 3, 8, then release the "alt" key.
| >
| > Besides the diacritical characters, there are some
| > other nice keys on that table, such as the cents,
| > British pounds, and Japanese and yen symbols at
| > 154, 155 and 156. For example, "this costs
| > ¥10,000 in Japan, but only £30 in England."
|
| I get accented characters from the United States - International code set,
| which I enabled in Windows XP. I forgot exactly what I did, but ask in a
| Microsoft newsgroup, and somebody will help you out.
|
| This code set makes accent characters into dead keys that are resolved
upon
| the striking the next key. A single quote followed by e becomes é (e
accent
| aigu). Similarly the double quote followed by vowel becomes becomes an
| umlaut, for example " followed by o gets ö.
|
| You can also get them by using Windows Character Map. Poke around in
| Accessories in your start menu to find Character Map. The method here is
to
| find the character, say the Czech c with the check mark over it, then copy
| it and paste into your post.

I'll have to start poking around in XP, so glad I ran into you. In
Accessories, I found a keyboard?

| Emmet, the "forte", "forté" thing is something that bugs the purist in me,
| but it is not something I can get corrected. It's just one of life's many
| minor annoyances.

Usually I don't get annoyed while reading, going for the flow, as I take
for granted the writer (or editor) would usually know their subject or craft
better than I. What bugs me are news commentators, making all that money,
appearing in front of millions of people, not doing their homework, and I'm
just talking about form here.

Anyway, thank you for the information.


.

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