Accented characters in GrandViewForWinV1

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Posted by Deerdra
Sep 19, 2018 at 12:21 PM

Is it possible to type accented characters In the vDos port of GrandView made available here 2 years ago?

I can paste accented text (Win+Ctrl+V) and it shows fine. But I haven’t found a way to input them directly.

For instance, using the International-US keyboard, typing ‘e produces é, But in GV it just produces e without the accent.

Thanks

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.

Posted by Deerdra
Sep 20, 2018 at 01:57 AM

I looked up a lot of things before posting. DOS is not like any other window. Alt+numpad doesn’t even work there.

Posted by Dee
Sep 26, 2018 at 09:55 PM

Perhaps you could try posting your question in the Forum on the vDos website:

https://www.vdos.info/

Posted by Deerdra
Sep 27, 2018 at 02:22 PM

I did post in vDos and Jos Schaars replied this is not a vDos issue:
http://vdos.proboards.com/thread/58/accents-vdos-running-grandview

I then posted in vDosPlus and got no repsonse:
https://sourceforge.net/p/vdosplus/discussion/general/thread/457f03509e/

I very much appreciate that you made GrandView available on Windows. I just wish I could use the US-International keyboard with it. It’s still not clear to me why it doesn’t work.

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