Re: Typing non-keyboard characters
Michael Griebling (grieblm@inforamp.net)
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 15:41:33 +0000
Guy Laden wrote:
>
> 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.
Thanks for the help. Do you use the special Apple key to do the same on
the Mac?