allchars -for creating accents

H

Helen

http://allchars.zwolnet.com/introduction.html

AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents like é Ü ç î æ and special characters like ƒ ² ‰ © £ ± ß ° 1/2 ¿ « » ™ „ in most Windows programs.
AllChars emulates the *nix Compose key on Windows.

AllChars v3.5 upwards supports macros: type a (short) name and AllChars will replace it with a (long) text.

AllChars is very easy and intuitive in usage and it is possible to adapt it to your wishes.

AllChars is FREEWARE.

AllChars works with Windows 3.11 or Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0 and 2000.

How do I make 'other' characters using AllChars?
Step one is understanding (a bit) how things work

AllChars only sends a character value (between 1 and 255) to the application in use. The in this application used font and character set (often called ‘script') determine what character is shown.
Older Windows fonts have one (fixed) character set, but the newer Unicode fonts can have many character sets.

E.g. typing Ctrl 1 4 (character 188) gives a ¼ in the Arial font, but a in the WingDings font. And typing Ctrl ? ? (character 191) gives a ¿ in the Western character set, but a in the Greek character set.

The 'Char Table' option on the AllChars help screen shows the available characters. With the popup-menu you can change the font and character set (script), showing the characters in different fonts and character sets.

In the used application (e.g. Word) you have to select the font and optional the character set ('script') in this font. The Windows system itself normally uses the ANSI (Western) character set.

So what AllChars can and can not do

If you use a localized Windows and/or fonts for your language/region, you can configure AllChars with key combinations for the special characters in these localized fonts and/or character sets. Some of these configurations are available on this website.
But remember: you might need other (localized or Unicode) fonts for these!

AllChars can not:

a.. Give you characters that are not available in the active character set of the active font.
b.. (Temporarily) change to another font like 'Symbol' or 'Wingdings' for special characters of these fonts.
c.. (Temporarily) change the character-set in the font.
All this has to be done in the application itself.

Does AllChars work with Windows ME, 2000 or XP?
Yes, AllChars works fine on Windows ME, 2000 and XP.
 
M

ms

Helen said:
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/introduction.html

AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents like é Ü ç î æ and special characters like ƒ ² ‰ © £ ± ß ° 1/2 ¿ « » ™ „ in most Windows programs.
AllChars emulates the *nix Compose key on Windows.
Click to expand...
Thanks.

I will try it for the "degree" symbol, didn't notice it in W98SE.

Mike Sa
 
M

mike ring

ms said:
I will try it for the "degree" symbol, didn't notice it in W98SE.

Mike Sa
Click to expand...
Under "math".

But I think the macro facility is best for passwords, etc

Incidentally I've forgotten what they suggeat for macro start, but I use #,
which use a lot more rearely than the default - you may well want to
choose your own.

mike
 
F

Frank Bohan

mike ring said:
Under "math".

But I think the macro facility is best for passwords, etc

Incidentally I've forgotten what they suggeat for macro start, but I use
#,
which use a lot more rearely than the default - you may well want to
choose your own.

mike
Click to expand...

To use a macro I use // followed by one or more letters or numbers.
Incidentally, you can access the macro list (and other functions) with Ctrl
a m. Also, you can add macros by editing the .ini file instead of entering
them individually though the GUI.

(//f) Frank Bohan
(//0833) ¶ Tubby or not tubby, fat is the question!
 
D

David

Thanks.

I will try it for the "degree" symbol, didn't notice it in W98SE.

Mike Sa
Click to expand...

Degree symbol ° can be obtained by holding the ALT key and typing 0176
on the number pad. Allchars uses press and release Control then type
dg. °
 
D

David

Under "math".

But I think the macro facility is best for passwords, etc

Incidentally I've forgotten what they suggeat for macro start, but I use #,
which use a lot more rearely than the default - you may well want to
choose your own.

mike
Click to expand...

Forward slash / is the default for macros.
 
M

ms

David said:
Degree symbol ° can be obtained by holding the ALT key and typing 0176
on the number pad. Allchars uses press and release Control then type
dg. °
Click to expand...
Thanks

Mike Sa
 
R

REM

Mike, here is an old bat file I made to display the high ascii
characters. I put it in a dir on the path so that I could just type
"ascii" in a DOS window from any location and the numbers that need to
be pressed with the alt key to get a symbol displays.

http://woundedmoon.org/Ascii.bat
 
R

Roger Hunt

Ü ç î æ and special characters like ƒ ² ‰ © £ ± ß ° 1/2 ¿ ‹ › ™ „ in most
Windows programs.


Mike, here is an old bat file I made to display the high ascii
characters. I put it in a dir on the path so that I could just type
"ascii" in a DOS window from any location and the numbers that need to
be pressed with the alt key to get a symbol displays.

http://woundedmoon.org/Ascii.bat
Click to expand...
Hey neat - thanks! Saves me looking for that bit of paper every time.
 
W

Wayne Boatwright

http://allchars.zwolnet.com/introduction.html

AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents
like é Ü ç î æ and special characters like ƒ ² ‰ © £ ± ß
° 1/2 ¿ « » ™ „ in most Windows programs.
AllChars emulates the *nix Compose key on Windows.

AllChars v3.5 upwards supports macros: type a (short) name and AllChars
will replace it with a (long) text.

AllChars is very easy and intuitive in usage and it is possible to adapt
it to your wishes.

AllChars is FREEWARE.

AllChars works with Windows 3.11 or Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0 and 2000.

How do I make 'other' characters using AllChars?
Step one is understanding (a bit) how things work

AllChars only sends a character value (between 1 and 255) to the
application in use. The in this application used font and character set
(often called ‘script') determine what character is shown. Older
Windows fonts have one (fixed) character set, but the newer Unicode
fonts can have many character sets.

E.g. typing Ctrl 1 4 (character 188) gives a ¼ in the Arial font, but a
in the WingDings font. And typing Ctrl ? ? (character 191) gives a ¿
in the Western character set, but a in the Greek character set.

The 'Char Table' option on the AllChars help screen shows the available
characters. With the popup-menu you can change the font and character
set (script), showing the characters in different fonts and character
sets.

In the used application (e.g. Word) you have to select the font and
optional the character set ('script') in this font. The Windows system
itself normally uses the ANSI (Western) character set.

So what AllChars can and can not do

If you use a localized Windows and/or fonts for your language/region,
you can configure AllChars with key combinations for the special
characters in these localized fonts and/or character sets. Some of these
configurations are available on this website. But remember: you might
need other (localized or Unicode) fonts for these!

AllChars can not:

a.. Give you characters that are not available in the active character
set of the active font. b.. (Temporarily) change to another font like
'Symbol' or 'Wingdings' for special characters of these fonts. c..
(Temporarily) change the character-set in the font.
All this has to be done in the application itself.

Does AllChars work with Windows ME, 2000 or XP?
Yes, AllChars works fine on Windows ME, 2000 and XP.
Click to expand...

This is a great little piece of software. I've been using it for years.



--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974


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W

Wayne Boatwright

Hey neat - thanks! Saves me looking for that bit of paper every time.
Click to expand...

I have a great little program called "ascii chart" that displays the table
very quickly. It was written in 1990, but works well on any version of
Windows, and it's only 37KB. I can't find it on the web, but if you'd like
it, e-mail me and I'll send it to you.

wayneboatwright at msn dot com

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974


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