Talk:Alt code

message: We could make a page called "Windows Alt keycodes list" that would contain the list, while this page just held information about it.Humphreys7 (talk) 14:22, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one has said anything on the topic, I am going to go ahead and move the table to: "Windows Alt keycodes list". Humphreys7 (talk) 14:15, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What about making a separate page with the list on it?

message: For those characters whose decimal equivalent number is less than 256, below process is valid for them.
If you want to use "ü" (u with diaeresis) instead of "u", for example, like in "Waldseemüller", then use these keyboard strokes / keys :  
Press "W", "a", "l", "d", "s", "e", "e", "m". Then press ... 
Alt + 0252 (it means, first press the "Alt" (Alternative/Alternate) key in your keyboard, and keep on pressing it (or keep on holding it) with your left hand, then press the digits 0 2 5 2 in sequence, one by one, in the right-side numeric keypad of your keyboard, then release the Alt key). 
Then press "l", "l", "e", "r". 
Then you will get Waldseemüller. 
To make it linkable (to goto the article,) use two third brackets at the beginning and at the end of the name, like this example, Waldseemüller map, then you will get (hyper-)linkable Waldseemüller map. 
If you want to link to that (English) article through URL, then use below (hex) code ... 
For example, hex code "FC" stands for "ü" (its decimal equvalent is 252, and its html (decimal numerical) equivalent is ü). Use "%" symbol before the hex code, to express the "ü" character, in a URL. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseem%FCller_map 
or, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseem%C3%BCller_map
~ Tarikash.
I think special characters can be typed on some systems with Windows Key + Period Qwerfjkl talk 21:21, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: How to Type the letter, for example ü in Waldseemüller ?

message: How many combinations are there?  And how do we find them all?  hehe.  I was just messing around one day and found some neat ones
ALT+789 = §
ALT+456 = ╚
ALT+158 = ₧
ALT+154 = µ
ALT+2547 = ≤ --72.146.66.200 14:08, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the possiblities are nearly endless. Heres an example: 3跠?}?ç(?Õ?}髿疦瞯粇S6դ. You can do nearly anything. AstroHurricane001(Talk+Contribs+Ubx) 17:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  more codes? 

message: look for 227. Thats where its broken. -IP User 22:02, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed it yesterday. The problem was "rowspan." --에멜무지로 01:35, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The page is broken 

message: I think the character tables in this article are completely redundant. Character tables for the obsolete code-pages can already be found in their respective articles, Code page 437, Code page 850, and Windows-1252. A character table for the complete Unicode character set would obviously be too large. If nobody objects, I will remove these tables and replace them with links to the aforementioned articles, as well as some ideas on where to get additional character charts from (e.g. Windows character map, or unicode.org). — Timwi (talk) 14:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redundant tables 

message: Are there Alt codes for operating systems other than Windows? Otherwise, a merge of this article with Windows Alt keycodes may be considered. --Abdull 17:23, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. There's nothing here that isn't provided by Windows Alt keycodes or Unicode#Input_methods. EdC 18:21, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Hm. I've improved it somewhat; maybe the best solution would be an article on Codepoint-based Unicode input systems which this could redirect to. EdC 19:05, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-Windows Alt codes

message: Is it really NPOV to have a comment saying that "Quick Key ... excels at ....", written by the author of that program? Perhaps a user with experience of the program might be able to provide a less biased view :-) 192.118.76.35 08:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Quick Key bias

message: The "###" in "Alt+0###" is not a Unicode code point and therefore this is not a Unicode input method. On my US Win2K system it appears to be giving me Windows-1252 characters. For example, Alt+0128 gives me the Euro symbol, and anything above 255 is entered as if I had typed it modulo 256 (e.g., 256=000, 257=001, and so on). This misinformation about it being "Unicode" is repeated on Unicode#Input methods as well. Please research the actual behavior and fix the articles.—mjb 00:40, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've actually seen some systems, with no relevant third-party software, configured in such a way as to allow unicode input (i.e. Alt-9674 = ◊) - This keeps getting repeated everywhere, and I've seen it with my own eyes, so at some point we need to track down what configuration results in this behavior. —Random832 16:53, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Two years later, I think this is now explained (albeit somewhat clumsily) in the article: Alt+9674 = ◊ in a RichEdit control (e.g., in WordPad). (Notepad doesn't use the RichEdit control.) --Keith111 (talk) 13:58, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Alt+0### is not a Unicode input method

message: Not sure what the point of a table of the first five alt codes is, espcially since they're CP437 characters... AnonMoos (talk) 12:22, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Table

message: Please, read details about alt codes I wrote before changing the article not to write language-specific codes and such... 213.130.16.116 (talk) 21:08, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Attention

message: The general external link policy places some requirements on us, as does the "Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links" policy. In the context of this article, alt code "tutorial" or "reference" sites are a dime a dozen, and pretty much all amount to the same thing: some random person self-publishing some knowledge they cobbled together from who knows where, sometimes not entirely correct and usually limited in scope. The majority of them apparently exist to not just be helpful, but to provide a platform for advertising. None of them are providing any official/authoritative info (e.g. from Microsoft), and they're not anything we're recommending for further reading & in-depth research. Rather, they're just cheat sheets.
However helpful some of these sites may be, I think we have a responsibility to exercise discretion in linking to them. I'm not saying we can't link to any cheat sheets, but we can't link to all of them, so we have to decide which ones are worth linking to. That is, we must have criteria by which we gauge the acceptability of an external link, above and beyond the bare minimum required by the general guidelines; otherwise, the list of sites we're linking to will just grow and grow, violating the policies against indiscriminate linking.
Here's what I consider acceptable, above and beyond the general restrictions in WP:EL (e.g. no blogs):
# The site should not be redundant — if two sites are providing mostly the same info, we should only link to one.
# The site does not contain advertising or other self-promotion — posting a link to your Google Ads-laden site is spam, IMHO.
I have some other ideas, but I think these two criteria, if strictly enforced, will keep this article's external links few in number and high in quality. —mjb (talk) 01:38, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see any adds on http://alt-codes.org/ (though I wouldn't bother to use or recommend it) TEDickey (talk) 23:52, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  There are ads down in, just not on the home page. e.g., http://alt-codes.org/list/ where I finally found what I was looking for. I agree about not using it; I found it fairly incomprehensible. That's what led me to go looking, and found alt-codes.net  goodeye (talk) 02:06, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

text: Done. goodeye (talk) 16:28, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link policy 

message: "This article contains instructions, advice, or how-to content. The purpose of Wikipedia is to present facts, not to train. Please help improve this article either by rewriting the how-to content or by moving it to Wikiversity or Wikibooks. (December 2009)"
But instructions are facts, and this content was useful and exactly what I was looking for.  An implicit purpose of Wikipedia is to be useful.  IMHO the facts on this page are useful because Windows is widely used.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alan8 (talk • contribs) 20:31, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Facts about alt codes 

message: is someone trolling?
cuz in opera, when i press cntrl shift x, its closing...
Ws04 (talk) 12:52, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opera? 

message: The article mentions "In LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and Inkscape, for example, only the second method works. In GTK only the third method works."
I'm using LibreOffice under Debian (Wheezy) here, and all three methods work just fine.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.218.32.18 (talk) 21:48, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linux LibreOffice input 

message: The article talks about "composition exiting after the third digit without releasing Alt", but I have never managed to enter multiple characters this way. Petr Matas 10:32, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Spitzak removed it.  Under standard traditional MS-DOS and MS-WINDOWS, no character is entered until the Alt key is released... AnonMoos (talk) 07:52, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composition exiting after the third digit without releasing Alt 

message: The character-set table in Code_page_437#Characters is not "Alt codes" as insisted by an editor, because any of the code-pages can be treated in this manner.  The logical way forward is presumably to spam every code-page topic into the See also list TEDickey (talk) 01:26, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The page should include links to relevant codepages nonetheless. Perhaps a table?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.118.194.251 (talk) 13:06, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circular reference via Code Page 437 

message: It's cute and shows off the potential for dynamic images, but does it really contribute to readers' knowledge? One has to read the legend to understand what it is about, and the lead paragraph, by itself, is rather more informative. In addition, doesn't the image pose a danger to readers with photosensitive epilepsy?
Peter Brown (talk) 19:11, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete the image at the top of the page? 

message: I deleted the sentence, "Many Wikipedia articles on various characters will include how to type that character using Alt codes for code page 437" I acknowledged that "This is true for 'æ' but not common." Spitzak reverted my deletion, claiming that "Such 'typing the character' sections are in virtually every article on a letter or punctuation mark" but giving no examples.
*Such information is indeed provided for , , , and .
*There is nothing at all of this sort for , , , or . 
*For characters in the Latin alphabet and for some punctuation, the ASCII value is given. It isn't mentioned that this same code can be used with . For numerals –, not even the ASCII code is provided.
*The article for  notes that this can be done but doesn't say how.
Suppose that, instead of deleting the sentence I replace "Many" with "Some". Will that meet with approval?
Peter Brown (talk) 00:10, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure. I was mostly talking about punctuation marks actually, like division sign.Spitzak (talk) 01:20, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Typing the character" 

message: , would you explain your edit today that deleted valid content from this article, which  and I have had to spend time to reinstate. Are you running a bot that will delete it all again tomorrow? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:31, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, sorry about the dropped characters. © and ® are usually violations of MOS:TMRULES which is why my script removes them by default. It's not a bot; I manually inspect each edit. There were a lot of changes in the diff I was looking at and I was distracted by not preventing other breakage, so I missed these deletions. I do have a database scan that enforces the trademark symbol guideline so this page would show up on my todo list eventually with no further action (though not for a while since there is a queue of tens of thousands of violations). Normally with character-encoding lists and whatnot I either mark the page for skipping or tag the characters that should not be changed (and I'm usually better about spotting them). In this case, I see one instance has already been tagged with , which will prevent the script from complaining about it. I tagged the others with  which should prevent this page from showing up in the queue again. Sorry again for the mistake, and thanks for the keen eyes and quick fixes! -- Beland (talk) 22:59, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  convert special characters found by Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss (via WP:JWB)