I see, you're right. In fact, Christian is right: But I had to type Alt-2-2-5 like Uwe(not 3: 3 gives nothing on my PC, so I thought his suggestion is a curious but nonworking strategy. I was obviously wrong and he was right). Thank you all for clarifying this, it is a useful bit of information.
Regards, Nusret --- Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nusret BALCI wrote: > > > Christian, > > the key combination you mentioned doesn't work > (for me > > not a big deal, though: there are several other > > convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder > why > > you thought this would do: What's the magic behind > > > Alt-2-2-3? > > Alt-"number" inserts the character with the "number" > from the current > code page. > > You find some code pages here: > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/wincp.mspx > and here: > http://czyborra.com/charsets/codepages.html > > In Windows-1252 the "ß" is at position "DF" which is > a hex number; in > decimal system it is the number "223" > > On my PC it seem that the old "CP850 (DOSLatin1)" > codepage is used > because the "ß" is at position "E1" which > corresponds to "Alt-225". > > regards Uwe > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
