| message | When placing my cursor over a character in the character map; I
| used to get an 'alt +' code. ex: alt + 0191, when placed over
| the ¿ symbol. Now I get something totally different when I
| place my cursor over it. ex: U+00BF. How do I get the alt+
| code back??? I've tried changing all the available choices;
| character set, fonts.....everything. HELP!!!
To "get the alt +code back" I do believe you would have to
install an Operating System that was not based on Unicode...
If the char in question has an "alt+code" you can see the code by
clicking to select the "Advanced view" checkbox found in the
lower left section of charmap. For more information click the
"Help" button in Character Map and search Help for "Finding
characters".
Note: In certain applications such as WordPad 2000, Office 2000
RichEdit controls, and Microsoft Word 2002, you can use the
hex-to-Unicode entry method (using the Unicode character you are
seeing in the popup box). This is especially useful for
characters that do not have a corresponding keystroke decimal
digit entry method.
For example, to enter the Lira Sign (which does not have a
corresponding keystroke decimal digit entry) open an
application that supports this method, type 20A4, hold down the
ALT key, and press x
Note that only a lower case x will work, so make certain the Caps
Lock key is not on. Also, make certain that the insertion point
is directly after the last entry (a 4 in the example above).
For more information on "How can I input any Unicode character if
I know its hexadecimal code?" see the section with that title on
this web page:
http://www.unicode.org/faq/font_keyboard.html
There are a number of other ways (than using charmap) to find the
hexadecimal character code point. Many can be found by visiting
the web pages at the official Unicode web site:
http://www.unicode.org/
For example, the web site contains a semi-colon delimited text
file of Unicode Characters (UnicodeData.txt) that can be opened
(and saved) in Excel, and then searched by Character name (such
as Lira Sign) to easily find the hexadecimal character code point
(20A4).
The URL for the UnicodeData.txt file is:
Index of -Public-UNIDATA: UnicodeData.txt
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
And the URL for the page that explains the File Format of
UnicodeData.txt is:
Unicode Character Database
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html#UCD_File_Format
Alternatively, for a "convenient online reference to the
character contents of the Unicode Standard" there are three
Character Names Index web pages that have: the Character Name,
the hexadecimal character code point, and a link to the
applicable Code Chart file (pdf) [the chart contains a picture
representation of the characters and the character code points).
The URL for that resource is:
Character Names Index ([A -D] [E - N] [O - Z])
http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html