[AT] Degree symbol--know how?

[Mattias Kessén]

253 for square 2 and 252 for cubic 3 but then my list say it's the nordic
version so who knows.

Mattias


2006/12/13, Larry D Goss <rlgoss at evansville.net>:
>
> There are a whole bunch of non-keyboard symbols available, John.  In the
> old
> days (DOS, etc) they were three numbers each because there was a maximum
> of
> 256 characters in any one font.  I suspect that there are still a bunch of
> fonts that don't have the high-bit characters defined, so there may be
> some
> people for which that particular alt-code doesn't print.  What really got
> to
> be fun was when the high-bit code for display on the computer screen was
> different from the high-bit code defined by the printer driver.  That sort
> of discrepancy could drive you nuts when a document looks OK on the screen
> and then comes out completely different on a hard copy.
>
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Wilkens" <jwilkens at eoni.com>
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:21 PM
> Subject: [AT] Degree symbol--know how?
>
>
> In case I'm not the only computer NON-genius in
> the crowd I thought you might like to know how to
> type a degree symbol like I just learned....so
> you don't have to type out the word
> "degree."   (My keyboard does not have a degree
> key).   Just set your keyboard to "Num
> Lock,"  place your cursor where you want the
> degree symbol, and hold down the "Alt" key while
> you type +0176 on the numeric keyboard (clusters
> of numbers on the far right of the
> keyboard)....IE:   32°    It works for me!   John W.
>
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