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The term '''Alt codes''' is used to refer to a number of [[Unicode]] [[Input method editor|input methods]] that allow characters to be entered by typing a character's code point in concert with the [[Alt key]].
== Usage ==SHITHEAD
* In [[Microsoft Windows]], symbols and accented characters not found on the keyboard are inserted by holding down the ''Alt'' key and typing number(s) on the [[numeric keypad]], see [[Windows Alt keycodes]]. <!--How about on computers where the numeric keypad is used with the same keys as the letters on the right side of the keyboard with Num Lock being the key that switches between the function; this is common for laptop computers.--> Numbers that are used with the ''Alt'' key to generate a character, represents the Decimal numeric entity code, [[Wordpad]] editor can be used to generate characters from many Unicode blocks. Notepad, [[Internet Explorer|IE]] doesn't support typing in decimal entity values more than 256. Characters are stored on your computer as numbers, each letter or symbol is represented by a number. To make sure that text looks the same on all computers, there is a standard called [[Unicode]] that defines which numbers are mapped to which characters. Due to the number of alphabets in the world, Unicode defines tens of thousands of characters.
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