ASCII characters from the numeric keypad

[George Singer]

I have been able to enter foreign characters from the numeric keypad
(Alt, numbers) for a long time. And then, suddendly It does not work
any longer. Instead, I get question marks no matter what the numeric
combination is.
I installed the correct keyboard driver, but it does not seem to be
the cause.
I am running Windows 2000 with SP4.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have been able to enter foreign characters from the numeric keypad
(Alt, numbers) for a long time. And then, suddendly It does not work
any longer. Instead, I get question marks no matter what the numeric
combination is.
I installed the correct keyboard driver, but it does not seem to be
the cause.
I am running Windows 2000 with SP4.

Please describe exactly how you enter your characters.

 

[Gary Smith]

Please describe exactly how you enter your characters.

.... and what program you're entering them into. That could make a big
difference.

 

[George Singer]

... and what program you're entering them into. That could make a big
difference.

I press and hold Alt, and then I type 0-2-4-1, or any other sequence.
I used to enter vowels with accents (Spanish) into Eudora, and also
Notepad and Wordpad. The sequence 0-2-4-1 creates the letter n with
the squigly on top.
Now all I get is a question mark, no matter the sequence of numbers.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Gary Smith <[email protected]> wrote in message

I press and hold Alt, and then I type 0-2-4-1, or any other sequence.
I used to enter vowels with accents (Spanish) into Eudora, and also
Notepad and Wordpad. The sequence 0-2-4-1 creates the letter n with
the squigly on top.
Now all I get is a question mark, no matter the sequence of numbers.

You must ensure that NumLock is turned on before pressing 0241 (which
should generate ñ).

 

[George Singer]

You must ensure that NumLock is turned on before pressing 0241 (which
should generate ñ).

Of course I am making sure the NumLock is ON. Any other ideas?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

"Pegasus \(MVP\)" <[email protected]> wrote in message

Of course I am making sure the NumLock is ON. Any other ideas?

You did not say that you turned on NumLock when I asked you
to describe exactly how you were doing it . . .

Run charmap.exe and use it to copy ñ into the clipboard, then
use Ctrl+V to paste it into Wordpad. If it works then you may
have a problem with your keyboard. If it does not work then
you probably have a problem with Windows. Booting with your
Win2000 CD and selecting "Repair" might fix it.

 

[Gary Smith]

Of course I am making sure the NumLock is ON. Any other ideas?

The procedure you describe works just fine for me whether NumLock is
turned on or not. I get n-with-tilde either way. What fonts do you have
set to use with the programs that are demonstrating the problem? It
sounds like they're somehow expecting only ASCII characters.

 

[George Singer]

You did not say that you turned on NumLock when I asked you
to describe exactly how you were doing it . . .

Run charmap.exe and use it to copy ñ into the clipboard, then
use Ctrl+V to paste it into Wordpad. If it works then you may
have a problem with your keyboard. If it does not work then
you probably have a problem with Windows. Booting with your
Win2000 CD and selecting "Repair" might fix it.

I found that the only application that seems to fail is Eudora.
So I used the keypad and I get question marks.
Using the charmap I can paste the characters into Eudora, but typing
them from the numeric keypad I still get question marks. That points
to the keyboard, right? But I can enter numbers from the keypad into
any text processor.
That would mean the Alt-keypad combination is failing...

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

"Pegasus \(MVP\)" <[email protected]> wrote in message


I found that the only application that seems to fail is Eudora.
So I used the keypad and I get question marks.
Using the charmap I can paste the characters into Eudora, but typing
them from the numeric keypad I still get question marks. That points
to the keyboard, right? But I can enter numbers from the keypad into
any text processor.
That would mean the Alt-keypad combination is failing...

I would uninstall & re-install Eudora. It appears to have
hijacked the Alt-key for its own purposes.