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::::* 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)
::::Re Spitzak's four bullet points:
:::::*In Wordpad, Alt+960 and Alt+0960 ''both'' produce a {{char|π}}, which is the correct Unicode character. The high-order zero doesn't matter.
:::::*Same counterexample. Alt+960 works just fine.
:::::*960 ≡ 192 modulo 256, but <u>in Word and Wordpad</u> Alt+192 produces a {{char|└}}(per CP437) and Alt+0192 produces an {{char|À}} (per Unicode and CP1252). Modulo 256 has nothing to do with it.
:::::*Numbers greater than 62235 ''might'' not work? I've produce two cases of numbers that big that do work (one here and one in the article). Why is Spitzak so suspicious of the others?
::::I agree with {{u|John Maynard Friedman}}, above, that we should not confuse "the numeracy-challenged with incomprehensible talk of modulo 255," assuming that he really means 256. Spitzak evidently disagrees, as he has introduced such considerations into the article. However, [[Unicode input]] is, or should be, entirely concerned with Unicode input, with ways to produce characters when one knows their code points. Modulo 256, applicable to [[Notepad]], outgoing [[Gmail]]s, etc. could be discussed in the [[Alt code]] article, but it is not relevant here, because
:::::*discussion is limited to Word and Wordpad as well as similar programs like [[LibreOffice|LibreOffice writer]], and
:::::*for Unicode input purposes, the only point of knowing about equivalence modulo 256 (if it worked in Word etc.) is that, if one thought the number 666 accursed, one could produce the character {{char|ʚ}} using 154 or 410.
::::[[User:Peter M. Brown|Peter Brown]] ([[User talk:Peter M. Brown|talk]]) 01:47, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
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