[78-L] Fwd: Montréal^

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Oct 7 08:01:46 PDT 2008


inverted question mark is on my list and when I sent it (along with a few 
others) the other night, it showed up fine here.


¿ = alt 168

FWIW, here's my entire stash (there were some I was never able to find)..some 
duplicates among them. These may not come through..only one way to find out.

> ê = alt.136
> à = alt.133
> é = alt. 130
> £ = alt.156
> â = alt. 131
> è = alt.138
> É = alt.144
> ô = alt.147
> ¢ = alt.155
> á = alt.160
> º = alt.167
> ½ = alt.171
> ¼ = alt.172
> Ç = alt 128
>  = alt 127
> ö = alt 148
> ò = alt 149
> û = alt 150
> ù = alt 151
> ÿ = alt 152
> Ö - alt 153
> Ü = alt 154
> ¥ = alt 157 (boy I use that one a lot)
> ?ƒ = alt 159
> í = alt 161
> ó = alt 162
> ú = alt 163
> ñ = alt 164
> Ñ = alt 165
> ª = alt 166
> ¿ = alt 168
> ¬ = alt 170
>   ä alt 132
> ç alt 135
> ü alt 129
> ë alt 137
> Ä alt 142
> É alt 144
> æ alt 145
> Æ alt 146

dl

Mike Richter wrote:
> 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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