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Undid revision 1303413657 by Dimitriy Ryazantcev (talk) Remove misleading text, has nothing to do with 0 prefix. The fact is that Alt-code for box drawing characters on MSDOS just did not work on Windows, nothing could change it until they added Unicode |
Undid revision 1303411518 by Dimitriy Ryazantcev (talk) Nobody calls this the "locale", it is the CODE PAGE |
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* The familiar {{key press|Alt}}+{{key press|#}}{{key press|#}}{{key press|#}} combination retains the old [[MS-DOS]] behavior, i.e., generates characters from the legacy code pages now called "[[Windows code page#OEM code page|OEM code pages]]".<ref name="WindowsAltAlgo" /> For instance {{key press|Alt}}+{{key press|1}}{{key press|6}}{{key press|3}} produces {{unichar|00fa}}. code point 163 in [[CP437]] or [[CP850]]. The "OEM code page" selection served little or no other purpose other than to control what Alt codes produced, if other code pages were selected then these numbers could produce different characters, but it did not change the display. It was impossible to type characters that were not in the Windows code page, such as box-drawing symbols.
* The new {{key press|Alt}}+{{key press|0}}{{key press|#}}{{key press|#}}{{key press|#}} combination (which prefixes a zero to each Alt code), produces characters from the newer "[[Windows code page#ANSI code page|ANSI code pages]]".{{efn|Microsoft acknowledged that "ANSI code pages" is a misnomer term and better name is "Windows code page".}}<ref name="WindowsAltAlgo">{{Cite web |date=2016-07-22 |title=To input characters that are not on your keyboard |url=http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/lang_char_code_input.mspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722031546/http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/lang_char_code_input.mspx?mfr=true |archive-date=2016-07-22 |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=Microsoft }}</ref> For instance {{key press|Alt}}+{{key press|0}}{{key press|1}}{{key press|6}}{{key press|3}} results in {{unichar|00a3}}, which occupies position 163 in [[CP1252]].
==Unicode==
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