Special Characters In Notepad Inserting

How do I put extended ASCII characters in notepad and/or wordpad. I know in Word (which I don't have), you can use the alt key and press the code, but that doesn't work in notepad, I get beeps. This XP notepad, and any help would be appreciated.

Go to start>all programs>accessories and select the "Character Map" program.Find the character you are looking for, click on it, and then copy and paste!-ignition

Thanks, that was useful, but is there a faster method I can use from inside Notepad?

If the alt isnt working then probably not, notepad is built to be very small and only support the bare minimum, eg printing, saving, opening, typing thats why it can only use 1 font throught.

Okay, thanks. i just remember the alt thing working in older versions of notepad. I knew Windows discontinued many functions with XP, but hoped this wasn't one of them. And thanks for pointing out the character map.

maybe you can try other free software for speacial characters , i had problems befopre with note pad trying to write in chinese but now i changed software and doing very well

I didn;t really need the special characters. I was writing a program and wnated to stick a header in a box and use the ASCII double lines for the box. The character sheet worked fine, and the characters were lost when saved with ANSI anyway, so I'm fine without them. And soon I will have word 2003 for any special stuff I need.

Why not try open office, its a very nice program apart from the presentation package and its free. http://www.openoffice.org/

You can still insert special characters in notepad using the ALT key. You need to make sure your num lock is on and then you must use the number pad while depressing the ALT key type the Unicode value available in the Character Map.

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Special Characters In Notepad

Replying to Tpositive

But we need to get the correct combination of numbers by holding on to ALT key, where can I find the combination number keys.

-reply by Madhu

combination numbers

Special Characters In Notepad

Can you please give me the combination numbers list for the notepad?

-reply by pavi

Special Characters In Notepad

Special Characters In Notepad

You can still enter special characters in Windows XP Notepad. Hold down the ALT key and any three digit decimal number between 001 and 256. These can all be looked up in the back of a printer manual or a character cell terminal manual. When you release the ALT key your special character will appear, but only if it is visible. 0 thru 9 are decimal 048 thru 057. A thru Z are decimal 065 thru 090. A thru z are decimal 097 thru 122. Punctuation is all in between these numbers. Special characters TAB = 009, LINE FEED = 010, FORM FEED = 013, X-ON = 017, X-OFF = 019, ESCAPE = 027, SPACE = 032.

-reply by Herbert

"Extended" ascii charactors

Special Characters In Notepad

Replying to FeedbackerAs Herbert noted above, notepad is reasonably accurate in producing charactors from ALT-32 - ALT 126. But it produces unreliable results with values greater than 126. The original question was this:

"How do I put extended ASCII characters in notepad and/or wordpad."

Note that the "extended ASCII character set" begins at 128(hex 80) and ends at 255(hex FF). So, is there way to type "extended" ascii charactors in notepad? The best answer I have is neither Yes or No! The answer is: Somewhat!

I have both researched & experimented extensively, and can say this much:

Notepad in XP is totally weird when it comes to entering these charactors, and you will get very unpredictable results.

For Example: Try entering ALT-155 in notepad. The result is the Cent sign (�)(decimal 162 hex A2). Save & open the file in a hex editor, and you will see that the actual charactor is hex A2 or in decimal 162, not the 155 you requested.

Repeat the same test in edit.Com and you will see that you get a percent sign in the display, but when checked in your hex editor, the hex value of the charactor is hex 9B or in decimal 155. This is exactly what you requested. Now open the file you creadted with edit.Com in notepad. You will see that notepad displays the charactor as a "Single right-pointing angle quotation mark", not the "Cent sign that you saw in edit.Com.

I cannot tell you why the charactors are displayed differently in edit.Com than in notepad, except that it appears that there are several different versions of the "extended ASCII character set"

http://www.ascii-code.com/

http://www.cdrummond.qc.ca/cegep/informat/Professeurs/Alain/files/ascii.Htm

The first table appears to be the most common and the one used by notepad.

The second table appears to be the one used by edit.Com.

What I can say absolutely for sure after hours of experimenting:

Edit.Com is reliable when typing "Extended" ascii charactors, and will give you the actual charactor(in hex) that corresponds to the charactor value you requested with ALT-(num). BUT ... The display in edit will be different than the display you will see if you open the same file in notepad, or most other editors(This corresponds to a different version of the extended ascii table, as seen by viewing the links to the 2 tables above.)

Notepad is accurate in producing charactors from ALT-32 - ALT 126. But it produces unreliable results with values greater than 126. It appears to me through experimentation, that notepad and most editors other than edit.Com are substituting the value you entered with the value that corresponds to another version of the ascii table.

In conclusion, I can tell you this:

Something Is Rotten In Denmark ... But I can't tell you why.

Use edit.Com for accuracy, but expect a different display in most other environments.

Any help out there by anyone in understanding this will be appreciated!

-reply by Lewie

Typing

Special Characters In Notepad

When typing 7500 characters, I need to know how fast are typing?

-reply by Inell