[Bryn-gwlad] Bryn-gwlad Digest, Vol 7, Issue 43

[Coblaith Mhuimhneach]

Lyonel wrote:
> The lowercase edh is part of the extended ASCII character set. With 
> thenumber lock on, hold down the <Alt> and, on the numeric keypad, 
> type 0240.

brynhildr answered:
> Ahh, but that's if you have a PC.

> But here -- tadaaa! -- at work, I can pull down my handy Icelandic 
> flag* from the pulldown menu and get all the ðs and þs I want.
>
> (*That's if I'm on the Web or in Text Edit.  Word won't do it for me 
> on the Mac.  This is one definite advantage of the PC.  About the only 
> one, in my experience)

Sounds like a disadvantage to Word, to me.  I use AppleWorks for my 
word processing, and can use the character palette any time I need to.



Coblaith