--- In norse_course@..., gwiddon8@... wrote:
> It was posted once before but I'll be danged if I can locate it.
Could
> someone post the Alt + number combinations again?
>
> Thank you
>
> Alice
Hi Alice!
I have had such a table on the wall behind my monitor
for about 5 years. I know the original electronic
file is stored on a web server, and I will try to use
the search engine to find it. The thing to look for
is called "ISO-8859-L", where the "L" stands for "Latin".
"Iso 8859" refers to a certain set of international standard
hexadecimal codes for representing letters/characters
during electronic transmission. Sometimes it is also
referred to under the heading "QP-codes". (QP means
"quoted printable"). I found the URL. Here is a copy
of the file:
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qp-codes - enlarged table. Version 0.75
keth@...
August 1996
Hello oldnorsenet:
I was asked by someone who found the list useful,
to extend it also to the umlaut characters, which
is done below. Otherwise the list is identical.
Quoted-Printable characters. Version 0.75
-----------------------------------------
=46irst the three most important ones (at least in Norway):
ae-ligature æ 230
o-slash ø 248
a-ring å 229
Then the same three capitalised
AE-ligature Æ 198
O-slash Ø 216
A-ring Å 197
Then the two most important Icelandic characters:
edh ð 240
thorn þ 254
Edh and Thorn as capitals:
Edh Ð 208
Thorn Þ 222
Then there are the acute vowels (also important in Icelandic)
a-acute á 225
e-acute é 233
i-acute í 237
o-acute ó 243
u-acute ú 250
y-acute ý 253
Then there are the same vowels as capitals as well as
A-acute Á 193
E-acute É 201
I-acute Í 205
O-acute Ó 211
U-acute Ú 218
Y-acute Ý 221
I now add the umlaut vowels ( mostly for German and Swedish)
a-umlaut ä 228
e-umlaut ë 235
i-umlaut ï 239
o-umlaut ö 246
u-umlaut ü 252
and the same as capitals
A-umlaut Ä 196
E-umlaut Ë 203
I-umlaut Ï 207
O-umlaut Ö 214
U-umlaut Ü 220
Then there are French (or German or Norwegian) quotation marks
that often come in handy
<< « 171
>> » 187
Finally, for Windows oe-ligature is available
oe-ligature 156
OE-ligature 140
double s (sz) ß 223
Then I could also have added the accent-grave vowels,
but those are mostly used in French, and so I won't
include them here, though I could easily do so. But
it would lie outside the scope and range of Old Norse.
The version number 0.75 indicates the presence of
possible errors (hopefully less than 25% :)
If someone would check the list it would be much
appreciated. Although I am not using a Windows machine
now, checking on a Windows machine could presumably
be done by means of the <Alt> key. i.e. holding
down the <Alt> key while typing e.g. 0229 and then
releasing the <Alt> key should give an =E5 (a-ring).
I am also a bit uncertain about what Mac character
to use for Y-acute, but if someone would send this
character from a machine where it is clear, we might
be able to find out.
Keth
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(if you take the above file out on your printer,
and cut away the text above and below the table
by using a pair of scissors, you will have a table
that is useful to attach somewhere on a shelf above
your monitor)