[78-L] Fwd: Montréal^

[Mike Richter]

Howard Friedman wrote:
> Bertrand,
> 
> I believe that you can access almost any letter with the desired diacritical markings through the use of Alt + a number.  Thus, ALT+135 = ç, ALT+128 = Ç,,ALT+130 = é, ALT+0201 = É,   etc., etc., etc.  Almost all of the diacritical marks can be accessed through ALT +nnnn, where nnnn in between 128 and 172, and between 0189 and 0255.

First, on the PC one must use the numberic keypad, not the numbers below 
the function keys.

Second, the safe diacriticals are those in the original HTML 
specifcation. They are not preëmpted <G> for other characters in any 
typeface I have seen. That covers most of the special French characters 
including diereses on i and e and ae, but not the oe digram. Inverted ? 
and ! are not on the list either.

That does not mean that you can't use a character not in the HTML 
vocabulary, only that using it risks misreading depending on the 
reader's mail client.

Mike
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