gremlinkurst
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Computer:HP Pavilion Entertainment PC [Laptop/Notebook] dv9626us, OS: Windows Vista Home Premium (fully updated)....When I first got the machine I could enter international/special/keyboard-transparent characters, i.e., é and the like, but now I no loger can; nothing happens when I depress ALT, enter 130, and then release ALT (or any other code, for that matter). One person suggested that a program that I installed had co-opted those key combinations/commands, but was unable to offer any kind of advice regarding how to identify the culprit and deny IT the use of those keystrokes.
I cannot find anyone who knows how to restore this capability. It is really a pain in the backside to use INSERT SYMBOL* if I am in an Office application, or to open a reference file I had created containing all known ALT/Numeric Keypad, copy the desired character, and to paste it into the desired location. Different applications and environments have differing characters and symbols available to them, and my reference file reflects this, detailing which ones are ANSI, Unicode, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Works...but now the codes are totally useless. Does anyone know how to restore the capability to enter these characters and symbols via combinations of the ALT key and 3-and-4-digit numeric keypad numbers (ALT+0133 {ellipsis [...] }, ALT+129 {lowercase umlaut [ü] }, et cetera)?
*Character Map is useless, as it has nothing to do with the ALT key codes.