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:::::"... while <u>it</u> remains unqualified." Sorry, what is "it"? My revised wording begins, "Some programs running in [[Microsoft Windows]], including [[Microsoft Word|Word]] and [[Wordpad]] ...". Isn't that sufficient qualification? I don't see a need, here, to mention that whether one can produce {{char|£}}, {{char|Ð}}, etc. on [[Notepad]] or [[Visual Basic for Applications|VBA]] depends on the code page in effect. [[User:Peter M. Brown|Peter Brown]] ([[User talk:Peter M. Brown|talk]]) 19:05, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
::::::"it" = "the text". The text that says that this method works when the real story is "it depends". Setting ever tighter parameters so that we can continue to say that it works is being "[[economical with the truth]]". We need to say that the method doesn't work reliably for keyboard settings outside the Americas, Western Europe, Southern Africa, A&NZ and (former) Western European colonies. IMO. --[[User:John Maynard Friedman|John Maynard Friedman]] ([[User talk:John Maynard Friedman|talk]]) 20:07, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
::I think it can be stated this way:
:::In some cases Microsoft extended the [[Altcode]] inputs so that Unicode code points could be typed as decimal numbers.
:::For the numbers 0-256 the user had to type a leading zero (so that the "ANSI" code page was used) and also the ANSI code page had to be set to something that matched the first 256 characters of Unicode for all useful characters ([[CP1252]]).
:::For numbers greater than 256 there were numerous different results, ''depending on the software being used and the version of Windows'':
::::* The number had to be prefixed with a zero to work
::::* At least 4 digits had to be typed (ie leading zero on n <= 999) to work.
::::* The numbers did not work at all (usually producing the character for n modulus 256)
::::* Numbers greater than 65535 might not work even if smaller numbers do.
[[User:Spitzak|Spitzak]] ([[User talk:Spitzak|talk]]) 20:58, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
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