division sign

[Avery]

Dave,

Check out some of the alt code links I posted 
earlier. They work! Forget the ascii stuff!

Avery

At 09:40 PM 6/3/2006, you wrote:
>÷
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>This came up with alt 246, not "247."  This is 
>what I get with 246:  Ü.  Nice smiley face....
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>Dave Stahl
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>Dave Stahl Piano Service
>650-224-3560
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Geoff Sykes <thetuner at ivories52.com>
>To: schecter at pacbell.net; 'Pianotech List' <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Sent: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 17:34:42 -0700
>Subject: RE: division sign
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>I think you guys are talking about two different division signs. The one the
>keyboard has no trouble with is "/". However, a real division sign "÷" is an
>ascii character that has no keyboard equivalent on any keyboard, Mac or
>Windows, that I've ever seen. The ascii equivalent of this character is
>"247". The easiest way to enter it into an email, at least on a Windows
>machine, is to hold down the ALT key and enter the number "247" and let go
>of the alt key. That's how I did it above. This will work with pretty much
>any ascii character that is a) available in the font you are using, and b)
>isn't also a control code. However, you MUST use the numeric keypad for this
>to work. The numbers keys above the letters are a different keyboard code
>and will not generate the character symbols.
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>Another good website for both ascii character codes and extended ascii codes
>for html is <http://ascii.cl/>http://ascii.cl/.
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>-- Geoff Sykes
>-- Assoc. Los Angeles
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: 
><mailto:pianotech-bounces%40ptg.org>pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 
>[mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
>Of Mark Schecter
>Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 5:00 PM
>To: <mailto:pianotuna%40yahoo.com>pianotuna at yahoo.com; Pianotech List
>Subject: Re: division sign
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>Don wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > One would use the ascii code. Here is a web site for some of them.
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>Is this really true? You mean you can't type the division sign in Windows
>XP? Ten years after Windows 95? If so, this kind of malarkey is
>an example of why some people prefer Macintosh. How in the Sam Hill can
>a company with the brain mass of Microsoft not figure a way to allow use
>of the division sign that has been available since Remington made
>typewriters? Is it possible nobody asked? Uh, I don't think so ...
>
>-Mark Schecter
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