Hello, George Reschke, Thempleton Aart, Claudia, and All,
@Thempleton-Aart :
I’m a bit confused because, the two methods, described in my previous post, for getting characters, with code between 1 and 255, do work on my N++ configuration ! Of course, when I wrote the expression “ALT + a number n, from …”, there’s no need to press on the numeric pad key +. That’s just a shortcut for the word and !
Anyway, many thanks for giving the link below :
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/11609/how-to-enter-character-codes/2
Indeed, because the Claudia Franck’s method, about adding a registry entry, works perfectly well :-)). That’s incredible : although involved, since more than 30 years, with computer science, I’ve never heard about that third way to get any Unicode character !!
I found out, on Wikipedia, these three interesting links, below, about all the Input methods :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#Hexadecimal_code_input
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code
So, once the Claudia’s registry trick realized, on your system, the third and general method for getting any Unicode character, with code-point between 0001 and ffff, is :
Hold down the ALT key
Type the + key, on the NUMERIC keypad
Type the hexadecimal code-point of the character, using the 0 to 9 keys, on the numeric keypad AND/OR the normal a to f keys, of the alphanumeric keypad
Release the ALT key
=> The appropriate character is written, at cursor location, in your current file
NOTES :
You must lock the numeric keypad in “number-mode” ( the NumLock indicator is active and switched on )
Of course, the current N++ font must be able to reproduce the glyph of these input characters !
All the characters, with code-point outside the Basic Multilingual Plane ( between \x10000 and \x10ffff ) CANNOT be obtained, from within Notepad++, with this method :-((
EXAMPLES, by increasing Unicode code-point :
( IMPORTANT : the Courrier New font must be selected, for the N++ Default Style style !! )
ALT , + , 0 , 0 , 0 and 1 writes the Start of Heading control character SOH,
ALT , + , 0 , 0 , 9 and a writes the Single Character Introducer control character SCI,
ALT , + , 0 , 0 , a and e writes the Registered sign, ®
ALT , + , 0 , 1 , 6 and 6 writes the Latin Capital letter T with Stroke, Ŧ
ALT , + , 0 , 3 , a and 6 writes the Greek Capital letter Phi, Φ
ALT , + , 0 , 4 , 4 and e writes the Cyrillic Small letter Yu, ю
ALT , + , 2 , 0 , 3 and 0 writes the Per Mille sign, ‰
ALT , + , 2 , 0 , 3 and c writes the Double Exclamation Mark symbol, ‼
ALT , + , 2 , 0 , a and 7 writes the Spanish Peseta sign, ₧
ALT , + , 2 , 0 , a and c writes the Euro sign, €
ALT , + , 2 , 1 , 5 and e writes the Fraction Seven Eights symbol, ⅞
ALT , + , 2 , 2 , 1 and e writes the Infinity symbol, ∞
ALT , + , 2 , 5 , 6 and c writes the Double Vertical and Horizontal Box drawing symbol, ╬
ALT , + , 2 , 5 , b and a writes the Black Right-Pointing Pointer symbol, ►
ALT , + , 2 , 6 , 6 and 3 writes the Black Club Suit symbol, ♣
ALT , + , f , 0 , 0 and 2 writes the Latin Small Ligature fl,
ALT , + , f , b , 3 and c writes the Hebrew letter Lamed with Dagesh, לּ
ALT , + , f , b , 6 and a writes the Arabic letter Veh Isolated Form, ﭪ
ALT , + , f , f , f and f writes the Last NON character of the BMP, according to its UTF-8 syntax, xEF xBF xBF
Best Regards,
guy038
