RE: Inserting ASCII via decimal numbers

["Joel Lidov" <Lidov () qc ! edu>]

Mark Thakkar wrote on 12 Mar 2006

> David,
> 
> > You need to use Ctrl+Shift+nnn to enter ASCII code numbers.
> > Try it, it should work on all recent versions.
> 
> Does anyone else find that this doesn't work with the numeric
> keypad, but only with the number keys above QWERTY etc.?

I think that's been true for a long time; if it really bothers you can 
customize the keyboard file by copying the keyboard code for the top row 
keys C+S+1..0 (R1, R2, etc, as I recall) to the appropriate section of the 
table.  Since NB controls as much of the keyboard as MS allows, these 
changes are possible.
> 
> Does anyone else find that NB doesn't produce En and Em dashes
> via this method (150 and 151 respectively), but instead gives
> an orange box around subsequently-typed text?

So it does, but why not use F5,N and F5,M, as the program is designed? 
F5,F1 will give the complete layout of extra characters.

> And does anyone else find it irritating that you can't use ALT
> for this as you can in any other Windows program?

In DOS days NB was able to use the Alt keyboard as a whole for the phrase 
system; this was *much* more convenient than having the less commonly used 
ASCII keys occupy part of it.  This was, alas, a convenience lost in the 
shift to Windows, where MS has preempted the alphabetic ALT keys. Perhaps 
the keyboard could be edited to achieve this now. 

Joel