Re: Typing non-keyboard characters

Guy Laden (laden@math.tau.ac.il)
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:56:07 +0300 (GMT+0300)

hi,

> How do I obtain accented characters under Oberon-F. I have
> looked through the logical places in the documentation but
> couldn't find anything. The frustrating thing is that I can
> find numerous examples of accented characters, etc.
>
> The reason I need to do this is to insert special characters
> into calculator keys that I am defining as buttons but can't
> seem to access the upper key ranges where the special characters
> likes times, divide, etc. hang out.

Under Windows, holding the ALT key down and then typing the code
(in decimal) for the character you want, then releasing the ALT key
should generate a character with that code.
btw: it seems like the codes for generating characers this way arent the
codes listed in the 'Character Set' document. I suppose this is because
Oberon/F uses a platform-independant standard character set different
from Windows.
Ofcourse you can always cut-and-paste from the examples
you mentioned you found.

Regards,
Guy.