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britinusa
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Initially Posted - 12/19/2008 : 06:00:48

I really really should know how this works, but as the forum does not allow html code in a post, then I'm stumped.

I have posted this in the Testing forum so that we can use it when needed (Read the testing forum)

Your posts will change direction by approximately 10°

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Updated August 2015

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 06:44:36

Paul, degree (º) is the extended ascii code 167. You type it by holding down the alt key while entering 167. There are lots of sites that can supply the Extended ASCII Codes if you google for it. And see, old retired IBMers are good for something, Ha Ha. Merry Christmas. Bob

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 06:51:47

Thanks Bob! I'll update my msg in the testing forum.

Wow, how long since I tried to enter an ascii code into a none html forum! (or &0186;)!

Have not been up to the blue lake area of Boca in years!

Paul

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 07:04:06

Paul there is also a Windows Character map in Accessories, System Tools, Character Map, listed by windows font. Kind of complicated to use though.

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 07:18:11

It's odd that you mention this subject because yesterday a friend of mine [url="http://www.mesweet.net/printaltsymbols.html"]emailed me a web page[/url] that posts many ASCII codes.

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 08:36:33

Thanks Bob, I learned something new today.

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 10:18:40

For Mac people, just hold down the "apple" key and press 0 (zero).

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 10:33:10

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by DaveR
 ...a friend of mine [url="http://www.mesweet.net/printaltsymbols.html"]emailed me a web page[/url] that posts many ASCII codes.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Thanks! I bookmarked that--also good for Spanish in e-mails and such... But I haven't discovered how to make it work on my laptop that has the numeric pad on the alpha keys (with NumLock). Any clues? (Bob--it's an IBM--actually a brand new Lenovo... sorta takes me back to my roots when this amount of storage took about 640 desk-sized disk drives! Actually, I go further back than that...)

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 11:51:59

Off hand I don't know the answer Dave, but it may be numlock and a combination of FN and ALT. Or something similar.
Old computers talk takes me back to my first computer, a RAMAC 305 which I was trained on in 1959. It had a 5 million character disk drive which was later doubled to 10 million character. The whole computer required about a 30' x 40' room with lots of air conditioning and its power requirement was 240v, 3 phase, 60 amp. It had over 4000 tubes, no transistors.
Ahh the memories. Bob

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 12:41:55

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Paul, degree (º) is the extended ascii code 167. You type it by holding down the alt key while entering 167<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

The ASCII code is actually ALT+0176, 0167 is §.

Here's a handy chart: http://psacake.com/web/dv.asp

Dave,
I haven't been able to figure out how to enter it on my laptop either, I use Character Map as described earlier if I need special characters, we no longer have a functional desktop at home, so we use our two laptops.

As a point of trivia, a degree symbol is %%d in AutoCAD...

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 12:54:42

Could you not hit alt and the numbers on the top of the keypad above the letters?

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 13:04:13

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Could you not hit alt and the numbers on the top of the keypad above the letters?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

You'd think so, but it doesn't work. The numbers on the numerical part of the keyboard aren't wired up in parallel with the ones along the top, so the key sequences for extended characters aren't the same.

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 16:11:01

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Kendall
 Could you not hit alt and the numbers on the top of the keypad above the letters?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I tried that--no luck.

Bob--I cut my teeth on a 650, 1620, and 7094 at Purdue, then was trained on unit-record equipment in IBM. (Does Ideal Milk Bucket ring a bell?) I have to laugh when I look at this Ideapad keyboard and see "SysRq" and "Break" in the function key row, as if I were hooked up to MVS as a dumb green-screen. And Break is in the corner where eveybody else (but IBM) puts Delete. ...the last gasps of the good-ole OS programmers.

Back to ASCII... there has to be a way!

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 16:51:56

Here's how on my laptop (HP)

There's a fn key (next to left hand crtl key) and a num lk key (next to F12 key)

I put the keyboard in num lk then I can use the Alt and 167 (which for me is alt and jo&) and I get º

Don't forget to take it out of numlock after using it...

Paul

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Response Posted - 12/19/2008 : 17:05:08

º It works! I could swear I tried doing exactly that before... I have a feeling that in less time than it takes me to remember and do that, I could type "degrees".

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Response Posted - 12/20/2008 : 17:19:42

I have two BS degrees, so I should be well versed

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Response Posted - 12/20/2008 : 17:57:17

I have been accused of having a degree in BS

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Response Posted - 12/20/2008 : 19:36:31

I don't think you're the only one who's been accused of that here.

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