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:::[[User:Peter M. Brown|Peter Brown]] ([[User talk:Peter M. Brown|talk]]) 22:22, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
It seems to me that you are both getting bogged down because there are multiple processes at work here and consequently you are talking past each other. You need to agree terminology first.
* In mathematics, we can say that if {{math|1=b=f(a), c=f′(b) and d=f″(e)}}, if follows that {{math|a is some function of e}}. In your case, it is a series of modulo operations by which {{math|a}} may be transformed into {{math|e}}. I ''think'' you are arguing about the significance or otherwise of {{math|b}}, {{math|c}} and {{math|d}}. I suggest you guys resolve this one first.
* In commercial computing, there are multiple co-operating processes.
**The keyboard handler recognises that the Alt key has been pressed and so sends the scan-codes for 9 6 0, duly tagged.
**The next layer decides what to do with that information: the result depends on whether the receiving application is a legacy one like notepad or modern one like Office. In Windows, it also depends on the active code-page because the outcome differs by territory (as our Japanese friend has pointed out).
** The application next does ''two'' things: (a) store what it is programmed to understand as the 'right' answer{{snd}} a binary/hex number{{snd}} in a file and (b) sends that number to the display driver and/or printer. Thus what is displayed ''on this system, at this time'', will be {{char|π}} or {{char|└}} or {{char|À}}{{snd}} but it can be only one.
** If the Windows user sends that file to a Japanese friend or a Mac user, the display/print may differ. [I am conscious here that the context for ''this'' discussion is Unicode input, so substitution of (for example) curly quotes for typewriter quotes probably won't happen, but autocorrect has a habit of barging in where it is not wanted so I'm not taking any bets!).
Does that help in any way or just add to the confusion? --[[User:John Maynard Friedman|John Maynard Friedman]] ([[User talk:John Maynard Friedman|talk]]) 14:44, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
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