Key Caps choice. Shown below is a small portion of a character map for Windows Arial typeface. The first character © is produced by the alt 0169 code which must be typed on the numeric keypad to work. NUM LOCK must be on! Move your mouse over these characters and the resulting ANSI keystrokes should be displayed.

ON A PC, To see a complete Windows ANSI typeface character set type "Charmap" in the Start, Run, Windows menu. When you get the Character map, if you use Windows XP, choose Advanced View and for character set, choose Windows Western. Then, you will see the keystroke values (lower right hand corner)for each character, as well as the Unicode values (lower left hand corner). Pick a typeface from the drop down menu..

You should see something similar to the image below.

Not all typefaces will have the same available characters . Changing typeface may result in characters being mapped to the same numeric value but resulting in a different character being displayed. For example, alt 0169 produces © for Arial typeface, but produces a heart in the Symbol typeface.

 

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