french "oe"-letter on PC?
Peter Wennersten
I've got a problem I hope someone can help me with.
First of all, I'm using a PC under Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2.
I'm writing an essae in french and I need to use the special
french letter "oe" that is written together like the danish
"ć". From a function within my wordprocessor I can copy it
to the text , but the letter will not assume the looks of the
typeface I'm using. What puzzles me is that I know that the
letter in question exists in the font. I can see it in a
font/typeface program. There it is given the ANSI# 156, but
when I type this (alt key + 156 on the numerical) I only get
the "Ł". And that's the sign specified at that number in all
the codepages for DOS 6.2. (In the font program I see that
this sign exists in several of the typefaces I've got installed
on my PC.) What's wrong? What shall I do to be able to use this
letter in different typefaces in different programs (i.e. to
have it available like any other letter)?
I'd be very grateful for any kind of help,
/peter
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Peter Wennersten
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reader: Paperboy for Windows 2.04
Hubert Chan
Try 'alt + 0156' instead of 'alt + 156'. To use ANSI codes in Windows
(I'm assuming 156 is the ANSI code for 'oe'), one must type 'alt +
0<code>' instead of 'alt + <code>'.
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Hubert Chan ch...@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Edmonton Remote Systems Serving Edmonton/Northern Alberta since 1982
Sean Palmer
->
-> I'm writing an essae in french and I need to use the special
-> french letter "oe" that is written together like the danish
-> "ć". From a function within my wordprocessor I can copy it
-> to the text , but the letter will not assume the looks of the
-> typeface I'm using. What puzzles me is that I know that the
-> letter in question exists in the font. I can see it in a
-> font/typeface program. There it is given the ANSI# 156, but
-> when I type this (alt key + 156 on the numerical) I only get
-> the "Ł". And that's the sign specified at that number in all
The problem is probably here. Windows requires you to add an extra 0 to pad the
number to 4 digits, so you'd key in ALT+0156 instead. Otherwise not sure what
you get but it's usually not what you want. I suggest using the character map
to copy that character FROM YOUR FONT to the clipboard, then paste into your
document, then select the character and force it back into the font you clipped
it from originally using the Font menu or whatever.
-> the codepages for DOS 6.2. (In the font program I see that
-> this sign exists in several of the typefaces I've got installed on my PC.)
-> What's wrong? What shall I do to be able to use this letter in different
-> typefaces in different programs (i.e. to
-> have it available like any other letter)?
If the above 2 suggestions don't work, I dunno...
s...@uno.edu
>Hi,
>I've got a problem I hope someone can help me with.
>
>First of all, I'm using a PC under Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2.
>
>I'm writing an essae in french and I need to use the special
>french letter "oe" that is written together like the danish
>"ć". From a function within my wordprocessor I can copy it
>to the text , but the letter will not assume the looks of the
>typeface I'm using. What puzzles me is that I know that the
>letter in question exists in the font. I can see it in a
>font/typeface program. There it is given the ANSI# 156, but
>when I type this (alt key + 156 on the numerical) I only get
>the "Ł". And that's the sign specified at that number in all
>the codepages for DOS 6.2. (In the font program I see that
>this sign exists in several of the typefaces I've got installed
>on my PC.) What's wrong? What shall I do to be able to use this
>letter in different typefaces in different programs (i.e. to
>have it available like any other letter)?
If you want to enter the ANSI code you have to add a 0 in front of the
number; i.e. to get ANSI 156 type alt-0156. When you omit the zero,
Windows thinks you want to enter a code from the PC-8 character set and
tries to do some "smart mapping" of the code you entered to characters
in the ANSI set.
As for making entering such characters easier, I recommend getting a
copy of Compose by Digital Corp. This is a freeware program that allows
you to associate some key on your keyboard (I use the right CTRL key
which I rarely use for anything anyway) as a "dead" key, when you hit it
Compose activates and waits for a sequence of keystrokes; if they match
any predefined ones (or ones that you've defined) it inserts whatever
you've associated with those keystrokes. For example: if I hit the
right-CTRL then the letters o and then e I get the lowercase oe dypthong
character that you mention. If I'm holding down the shift key so that I
get O and E, I get the Uppercase version. It's not limited to entering
single characters either; hitting right-CTRL-addr inserts my name and
address into the active application. It's a real nifty program. You
can get it at ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/fonts/cmps1-64.zip.
>I'd be very grateful for any kind of help,
>
>/peter
>
>--
>Peter Wennersten
>m9...@abc.se
>reader: Paperboy for Windows 2.04
HTH
-* Stephen *-
Stephen Posey
S...@uno.edu
University of New Orleans