[LMB] (chat) two new foreign editions

[Peter H. Granzeau]

At 11:31 PM 10/30/2006, Melissa Siah wrote:
>Herself said:
>>/La Chasse Sacree /is the title in French (with
>>an accent over the second-to-last e that my computer would doubtless
>>supply me if I knew which button to push, but in the meanwhile, just
>>imagine it.)
>>
>>     Ta, L.
>
>(On Windows) I use the Num Lock and hold down 
>Alt while pressing in sequence the digits 1, 3 and 0. Result: é
>
>It's only the commoner accented characters that 
>I can actually remember though.  The more 
>obscure ones take a whole lot of random guessing and sometimes cursing.
>
>Agnes - where do I find this character map?

The problem is not creating a character (e acute, 
in this case), it is displaying it on systems 
that are not running Windows.  I believe Linux 
insists on a seven bit ASCII character set, so 
none of those characters with diacritical marks will display in a Linux system.

The character map is found in Windows XP by Start 
| All Programs | Accessories | System Tools | 
Character Map.  Click on the character you want, 
and the Alt key sequence is shown at the lower right corner.


-- 
Regards, Pete
pgranzeau at cox.net