special characters - was Coffee spill on the Bridge -- OT

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Sarah,

At 09:13 4/20/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Avery,
>
>I *vaguely* remember Windows 98, but it's been a long, long time.


As a troglodite, I'm still running Win98 at home and I sent Avery a scan of 
a chart I have of the ASCII characters.  That ACTUAL PAPER chart is always 
sitting near the computer.

>If all else fails, you can probably type special characters with your
>keyboard. To type the dotted 'u' thingie, you would hold down the Alt key,
>type '252' (or perhaps '0252') and then release the Alt key.  That's because
>that character has the ASCII character assignment of #252.  It doesn't work
>with *all* computers, but if you're running '98, it will probably work on
>yours.


BTW, I'm running XP here at school:
Umlaut u (lower case) is <alt>129...  ü


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