ALT-characters

[Guest]

Recently, without any perceived instigation, all of my ALT-characters have
become ... screwed up. Within Notepad, "Run", Firefox, Trillian, etc.,
whenever I attempt to use an ALT-character I have memorized they come out
wrong.

ALT-0162, which should be a cent sign becomes: ☻.
ALT-0176, which should be a degree sign becomes: â™ .
ALT-0151, which should be an em-dash becomes: ☺.

However, from within Word 2007, /it/ recognizes my ALT-characters properly.
My guess is that it's using its own keystroke recognition from within the
program, and not going through the operating system for the translation. But
I could be mistaken.

Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated; I use these extended
ASCII characters for passwords occasionally, and have to find other computers
on which to do my business since mine isn't working properly in this regard.

Thanks, THOR

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Recently, without any perceived instigation, all of my
ALT-characters have become ... screwed up. Within Notepad, "Run",
Firefox, Trillian, etc., whenever I attempt to use an ALT-character
I have memorized they come out wrong.

ALT-0162, which should be a cent sign becomes: ?.
ALT-0176, which should be a degree sign becomes: ?.
ALT-0151, which should be an em-dash becomes: ?.

However, from within Word 2007, /it/ recognizes my ALT-characters
properly. My guess is that it's using its own keystroke recognition
from within the program, and not going through the operating system
for the translation. But I could be mistaken.

Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated; I use these
extended ASCII characters for passwords occasionally, and have to
find other computers on which to do my business since mine isn't
working properly in this regard.

What font set are you using for Windows XP, Notepad, Wordpad?

 

[Guest]

What font set are you using for Windows XP, Notepad, Wordpad?

I'm not sure what you mean by what font "set". I've not changed any of the
default settings for XP's "Windows Classic" theme; in notepad I'm using the
default font ... Arial.

 

[Bill Sharpe]

Recently, without any perceived instigation, all of my ALT-characters have
become ... screwed up. Within Notepad, "Run", Firefox, Trillian, etc.,
whenever I attempt to use an ALT-character I have memorized they come out
wrong.

ALT-0162, which should be a cent sign becomes: ☻.
ALT-0176, which should be a degree sign becomes: â™ .
ALT-0151, which should be an em-dash becomes: ☺.

However, from within Word 2007, /it/ recognizes my ALT-characters properly.
My guess is that it's using its own keystroke recognition from within the
program, and not going through the operating system for the translation. But
I could be mistaken.

Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated; I use these extended
ASCII characters for passwords occasionally, and have to find other computers
on which to do my business since mine isn't working properly in this regard.

Thanks, THOR

You can get some pretty strong passwords just from lower-case and
upper-case letters, digits, and punctuation marks. Using Alt+characters
is overkill, IMHO.

Try changing your font to something else in Notepad, then change it back
to Arial.

Bill

 

[Guest]

You can get some pretty strong passwords just from lower-case and
upper-case letters, digits, and punctuation marks. Using Alt+characters
is overkill, IMHO.

Try changing your font to something else in Notepad, then change it back
to Arial.

Bill

It's not only passwords in which I need to use my ALT-characters, I use them
frequently otherwise. I changed the font around in Notepad to several times
and finally back to Arial; each time I got completely wrong characters than
the ones I was supposed to.

THOR

 

[Noozer]

It's not only passwords in which I need to use my ALT-characters, I use
them
frequently otherwise. I changed the font around in Notepad to several
times
and finally back to Arial; each time I got completely wrong characters
than
the ones I was supposed to.

FYI... ALT+0200 is not the same as ALT+200 ... Could that be the problem?
(Just jumping in here)

 

[Guest]

No, definitely not, sorry. Still haven't managed to resolve this, and can't
seem to find anybody having similar problems.

THOR