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==Unicode==
Later versions of Windows and applications such as Microsoft Word supported Unicode. As Unicode included all the characters in the MSDOS code pages, this had the immediate benefit that all the old MSDOS Alt combinations worked (such as the line-drawing characters), not just the ones that existed in the Windows Code Page.
In the IBM PC Bios typing an Alt code greater than 255 produced the same as that number [[Modulo operator|modulo]] 256.<ref name="WannaBuildASnowman">{{Cite web |first=Raymond |last=Chen |title=The history of Alt+number sequences, and why Alt+9731 sometimes gives you a heart and sometimes a snowman |work=The Old New Thing |publisher=Microsoft |date=2 July 2024 |url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240702-00/?p=109951}}</ref> Some applications retained this behavior, while others (in particular applications using the Windows [[RichEdit]] control, such as [[WordPad]] and [[PSPad]]) made numbers from 256 to 65,535 produce the corresponding Unicode character.<ref name="RichEdit">{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=Jim |display-authors=etal |title=About Rich Edit Controls |work=Windows App Development |publisher=Microsoft |via=[[Microsoft Learn]] |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/controls/about-rich-edit-controls |date=27 April 2022}}</ref> For instance, {{key press|Alt}}+{{key press|9}}{{key press|7}}{{key press|3}}{{key press|1}} in WordPad produces the {{unichar|2603}}. If the Windows Code Page was set to CP1252 then all Unicode characters except [[C0 and C1 control codes|control characters]] could be typed this way.
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