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jizlobber

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Mar 24, 2003, 4:06:07 PM3/24/03
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Are accent marks not found in English used in filling out the forms?
This includes accents, haceks, umlauts, and whatever additions
cultures have made to the alphabet. A lot of the info on my fiancee's
G-325 would have as such (including her name) didn't know how
consulate would like it.

Thanks again.

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David Brown

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Mar 24, 2003, 6:30:09 PM3/24/03
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Ah a purist at heart! They are available on your computer.
Under Programs -> accessories -> somewhere (varies with version of windows)
is a little program called Character Map.

Open it.
Choose the font you will use to fill in the forms (upper left).
Click character you want, click select, click copy, then move to the form,
put the cursor where you want the character and press Ctrl+v and it appears
on your form!

Alternate method is:
When you select the character, notice keystroke: in the bottom right.
Hold Alt+xxxx (four numbers ON THE NUMBER PAD AT RIGHT) and the character
appears.
This shortcut is useful for letters that appear multiple times. You will
memorize them quickly.

Examples: Ò or Ø or à

Finally if you don't see it at all, you may find some odd characters in
other fonts such as TERMINAL, dingbats, and wingdings...

good luck ..


Folinskyinla

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Mar 24, 2003, 6:40:32 PM3/24/03
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Originally posted by jizlobber
> Are accent marks not found in English used in filling out the forms?
> This includes accents, haceks, umlauts, and whatever additions
> cultures have made to the alphabet. A lot of the info on my fiancee's
> G-325 would have as such (including her name) didn't know how
> consulate would like it.
>
> Thanks again.

Hi:

No, the forms won't take them -- and don't worry -- they will drop off
of US identification.

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David Brown

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Mar 24, 2003, 10:46:31 PM3/24/03
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My forms take alternate characters just fine and I used one of them on an
original.

You are correct the Ctrl+v won't work though. That's the long way an I
really didn't test it.
But the shortcut method works just fine and to confirm, I printed a page
with many different alternate characters.

You are correct about "it's time to drop them" .... :-)

alØm :-)


jizlobber

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Mar 24, 2003, 9:32:43 PM3/24/03
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David, thanks for the post. I'm quite familiar with the extended ASCII
and Unicode sets, however I don't know of any of the Adobe PS fonts that
support the Unicode character set. Do you? They all seem to be the
standard Western character set. Thus I can get umlauts and accents, but
can't find any hacecks for the Czech characters.

However, I read the other post and saw they were ignored. So I guess it
doesn't matter anyway.

Thanks again.

Originally posted by David Brown

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