[78-L] Fwd: Montréal^

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

¿ is Alt + 168 in the PC world. I have the table with higher ASCII 
characters in front of me. Don't know how HTML translates that, 
however.

BC
Le 7 oct. 08, à 16:52, Mike Richter a écrit :

>
> 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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