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| wrote in message | Need help in making macros to used unicodes, specifically
| to write in spanish. some how I have no way other than
| using Character Map program which slows down any writing.
| Kind regards Ujimes
Without specifics (such as the program that is accepting this
input) I cannot provide specifics. Not to mention that you may
get a better response if you post in a newsgroup specific to the
Spanish language. That being said, perhaps the following will
help:
In certain applications such as WordPad 2000, Office 2000
RichEdit controls, and Microsoft Word 2002, you can use the
hex-to-Unicode entry method. This is especially useful for
characters that do not have a corresponding keystroke decimal
digit entry (such as ALT+0153).
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).
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 ways to find the hexadecimal character
code point. One way is to open Character Map (charmap.exe)
and search through it.
Another way is to visit 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 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 ([A -D] [E - N] [O - Z]) 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
http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html