Using special ASCII characters
ms...@hal-pc.org
letters for Spanish text) within Pegasus? If so, please advise in
"..for Dummies" detail. Want to send without using an attachment,
since some do not rrust attachments.
Yout direction is appreciated.
Mel Freen
Mac McDougald
Assuming Windows, just use Character Map to copy/paste the ones you want.
Little cumbersome if you must to alot of them, but works fine. Think it
has all the Spanish ones, like ń, é, etc (just used it here).
There's prolly a better way. If I did alot of that, I'd use some capable
text editor like NotePad Pro to compose, then copy/paste the whole
message into Peg.
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You can type them in directly from the keyboard if you know their
code. For example, ń can be entered by holding down the ALT key and
typing 0241. If you use them frequently, you will soon learn the codes
(which you can look up in Character Map). Note: you must use the
numeric keypad to enter the numbers; you cannot use the numbers on the
top row of the main keyboard.
Cliff
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Cliff
baseb...@hotmail.com
Mac McDougald
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:40:30 -0400, Mac McDougald
> <doogleRE...@doogle.com> wrote:
>
> >In article <3bc630dc...@news.hal-pc.org>, ms...@hal-pc.org says...
> >> Is it possibvle to use special ASCII characters (e.g. accented
> >> letters for Spanish text) within Pegasus? If so, please advise in
> >> "..for Dummies" detail. Want to send without using an attachment,
> >> since some do not rrust attachments.
> >>
> >> Yout direction is appreciated.
> >>
> >> Mel Freen
> >
> >Assuming Windows, just use Character Map to copy/paste the ones you want.
> >Little cumbersome if you must to alot of them, but works fine. Think it
> >There's prolly a better way. If I did alot of that, I'd use some capable
> >text editor like NotePad Pro to compose, then copy/paste the whole
> >message into Peg.
> >
>
> You can type them in directly from the keyboard if you know their
> typing 0241. If you use them frequently, you will soon learn the codes
> (which you can look up in Character Map). Note: you must use the
> numeric keypad to enter the numbers; you cannot use the numbers on the
> top row of the main keyboard.
>
> Cliff
Yup, good call. I should've mentioned that. If you use the same ones
alot, would be worth memorizing for sure.
Jeff Bodé
discouraged I now misspell my Pmail identity to avoid the problem. It's
easy to paste those characters into a Pegasus v.3 message, but a
non-Pmail user recipient won't necessarily receive them intact. My é
sometimes comes across as hex code, sometimes with that pegged after the
character set designation. I once asked Pegasus support why this mess
and was told that unicode does not support the extended ascii set.
Whatever that means. They said it was something they'd try to do in
v.4. This was long ago, and I have not tried the v.4 preview. If you
do, please write me.
Jeff Bodé
Kjetil Bull
>easy to paste those characters into a Pegasus v.3 message, but a
>non-Pmail user recipient won't necessarily receive them intact. My é
>sometimes comes across as hex code, sometimes with that pegged after the
>character set designation. I once asked Pegasus support why this mess
>and was told that unicode does not support the extended ascii set.
Have you tried to set the right ISO character set? I don't know what's
right for spanish, but Scandinavian languages need ISO-8859-1 (the so
called "Latin 1") for correct coding.
As long as the receipent of the e-mail has a mail reader accepting
other than straight 7-bit ASCII, it should accept non-7-bit characters
like æ, ø or é and show them right.
Kjetil
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