Re: Re: Emulation of Alt+Numpad+Digits behavior

Marius Gedminas wrote on 2004-08-07 11:23 UTC:
> [MS-Windows semantics] My understanding is that Alt+xxx in
> DOS/Windows enters the character xxx from the OEM code page, while
> Alt+0xxx enters the character xxx from the ANSI code page.

At least today, Alt+0xxx enters a Unicode character via its decimal
number. Press Alt while typing 08486 on the numpad, and you'll get an
ohm sign.

[By the way, there isn't really any such thing as an "ANSI code page"
defined by ANSI. It is just bad Microsoft terminology and probably
originated in the days of Windows 2.0 when Microsoft extended the
international standard "ANSI/ISO/IEC 8859-1" into their own set, today
known as CP1252, by filling in additional typographic characters in the
range 0x80-0x9f.]

Markus

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