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blake murphy > wrote in
:

> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:18:07 +0000 (UTC), (Steve
> Pope) wrote:
>
>>blake murphy > wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:17:55 +0200, Steve Y >
>>>wrote:
>>
>>>>No such thing as a European keyboard, there are many variants
>>>>depending on the version of whatever language is spoken in the
>>>>country.
>>
>>>>(typed on his AZERTY)
>>
>>>the azerty keyboard is not part of god's great plan.
>>
>>One thing I do before traveling to Europe or Asia is I create
>>a webpage that has text containing non-alpha characters that
>>might occur in things like usernames and passwords that I
>>need for logging onto various systems/sites. Then,
>>when I encounter a keyboard that is apparently missing these
>>characters, I can cut/paste them.
>>
>>Even the @ character is missing from some keyboards; I dunno
>>how you're expected to send email without that one
>>(other than hitting "reply").
>>
>>Before I got into the practice of forming such a webpage,
>>I was sometimes reduced to cruising the web until I randomly
>>see the characters I needed.
>>
>>Steve
>
> or for windows, i think you could use the alt + numeric keypad trick.
> (alt + numeric 130 = é, for example.) there's a page with characters
> and the codes he
>
> <http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc.html>
>
> since linux and mac users are special people, they have another
> system.
>
> your pal,
> blake
>

Check your windows machine for charmap.exe...it might have it. A
microsoft freebie that has All the characters

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