Re: Character Map

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:03:11 +0000, Chris Hogg <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote the following to uk.comp.misc:

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:10:33 +0000, Jim <sideband2005@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


How do I print the Greek characters used as symbols for electrical
units?

Character Map either doesn't have some of the symbols or puts the
wrong symbol into Eudora or WordPad etc.

On older computers it was possible to get a few Greek symbols by
turning on Num Lock, holding down the Alt key and typing a number on
the numeric keypad between 224 and 239, then releasing the Alt key.

224 gave alpha
225 gave beta
226 gave uppercase gamma (I think that's what it is: it's all Greek to
me!)
227 pi
228 uppercase sigma
229 lowercase sigma
230 mu
231 don't know what that is!
232 nor that!
233 theta
234 omega
235 delta
236 infinity symbol?
237 fi?
238 eta?
239 niu?

I did try typing them into this message, but Agent doesn't recognise
them, although Word and Notepad seem to, but Wordpad comes up with
mostly French letters (no sniggering at the back there, you know what
I mean!) but you may be lucky.

There's a few bits to this. The Windows system font uses the ANSI character
set rather than ASCII, which has more foreign characters and fewer "graphic"
ones (such as mathematical or box drawing symbols). The Alt+num trick in DOS
needs to be Alt + 0 + num in Windows. If it's a Unicode font the codes are
different again.

When you copy characters from Character Map, you need to change the font in
the "receiving" app (Wordpad or whatever) so that it's the same. Mail and
news stuff (Eudora and Agent) is probably set to use a different type of
encoding to standard Windows so that it works better in other email apps.
Word is a law unto itself, although Insert/Symbol should do it.

mh.
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