Kbase 21905: Entering Special Characters Using ALT on Windows Clients
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
3/20/2002 |
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SUMMARY:
This Knowledge Base Solution explains how to enter characters using the ALT keycode combinations ALT+nnn and ALT+0nnn on Windows clients.
EXPLANATION:
In a Windows client there are two codepages in operation, one for the DOS system and another for Windows. The DOS command prompt and typically Character-based applications use the DOS code page, while Windows GUI-based applications use the Windows code page.
A Western Windows GUI client should use the Microsoft code page 1252, and the DOS code page should be ibm850 or ibm437. To verify the DOS code page being used, start a DOS command prompt and type "CHCP".
When entering characters using ALT+nnn, the displayed character should be the corresponding character in the DOS code page at position nnn.
When entering characters using ALT+0nnn, the displayed character should be the corresponding character in the Windows code page at position nnn.
So, for example, with a Windows client using the 1252 Windows code page and the DOS code page ibm437, in Notepad:
ALT+137 = ë - e-umlaut (two dots above lower case e)
ALT+0137 = ? - promile (similar to percent)