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Siegfried H. Kottysch

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Nov 26, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/26/00
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Hi Klaus!

KlausL wrote:
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> The question is: How can he generate the various
> symbols that are part of the extended ASCII character
> set? He needs things like ä (char 0228), å (char 0229)
> or ö (char 0246).

Simply type: å

U can use all printable ASCII-Characters this way.

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KlausL

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Nov 26, 2000, 5:15:07 PM11/26/00
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I am posting this question on behalf of a friend who is
creating foreign language manuals using frontpage.

The question is: How can he generate the various
symbols that are part of the extended ASCII character
set? He needs things like ä (char 0228), å (char 0229)
or ö (char 0246).

Thanks for your help.

Klaus


Neuro

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Nov 26, 2000, 6:22:06 PM11/26/00
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"KlausL" <Kla...@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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You should download one or two html tutorials, they should have complete
special character lists so
you'll solve all of your problems. If not then go to http://www.w3c.org and
download the html 4.0 specification, there
you'll find what you need.

Hladni Ivan,
ASD Team
http://www.asdteam.com
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Cerebus

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Nov 26, 2000, 10:13:04 PM11/26/00
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ä ---- &auml;
å ---- &aring;
ö ---- &ouml;

To make it uppercase just change the a or o after the '&' to uppercase (ie.
&Ouml;)

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KlausL

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Nov 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/27/00
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Thank you Siegfried, Hladni & Clarence for your assistance.

Klaus

Siegfried H. Kottysch

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Nov 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/27/00
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Hi Klaus!

You're welcome!

KlausL wrote:
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> Thank you Siegfried, Hladni & Clarence for your assistance.
>
> Klaus

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Nov 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/27/00
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"KlausL" <Kla...@attglobal.net> wrote:

>How can he generate the various
>symbols that are part of the extended ASCII character set?

There is no extended ASCII character set, to begin with.

>He needs things like ä (char 0228), å (char 0229)
>or ö (char 0246).

You are apparently referring to some ISO 8859-1 characters. There are
various ways to enter them into HTML documents, and the methods depend
on the keyboard, authoring program, and server settings.

Numeric character references like &#228; and entity reference like
&auml; can be used, but in most cases it's better to enter the
characters directly in ISO 8859-1 encoding. (After all, it's more
convenient to be able to read what you type.) The methods needed for
this are system-specific.

More info:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/basics.html#special-char
http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/chars.html#typing
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