Accented characters in GrandViewForWinV1

Posted by xtabber
Sep 20, 2018 at 01:04 AM

In Windows, you can hold down the Alt key and directly enter the codes for extended characters on the numeric keypad (assuming your keyboard has a numeric keypad). That works for nearly all programs, except those like Microsoft Office that use their own keyboard handlers.

The standard US code page for Windows is 437 and the codes for French accents and other characters are:

à = Alt + 133 À = Alt + 0192
â = Alt + 131 Â = Alt + 0194
é = Alt + 130 É = Alt + 0201
è = Alt + 138 È = Alt + 0200
ê = Alt + 136 Ê = Alt + 0202
ë = Alt + 137 Ë = Alt + 0203
î = Alt + 140 Î = Alt + 0206
ï = Alt + 139 Ï = Alt + 0207
ô = Alt + 147 Ô = Alt + 0212
œ = Alt + 0156 Œ = Alt + 0140
ù = Alt + 151 Ù = Alt + 0217
û = Alt + 150 Û = Alt + 0219
ç = Alt + 135 Ç = Alt + 0199

« = Alt + 0171 (left guillemet)
» = Alt + 0187 (right guillemet)

You can look up the full list of character codes for different code pages on Wikipedia.