RPennington Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 I think that a capital "ø" can be put in the program under letters that aren't in the language section, but don't know how. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theKiwi Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Are you using Macintosh or Windows - on a Macintosh it's easy - just type Option-Shift-o all at the same time to getØø is option-oOn Windows I have no idea.Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPennington Posted March 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Are you using Macintosh or Windows - on a Macintosh it's easy - just type Option-Shift-o all at the same time to getØø is option-oOn Windows I have no idea.RogerWindows :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnold Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 I'll piggyback on what Roger wrote:"Are you using TNG or a Windows software genealogical program" to enter your data?If the latter and if it is Legacy, there is a ribbon with "foreign" characters you can choose from when you enter data. Arnold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackM375 Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 I think that a capital "ø" can be put in the program under letters that aren't in the language section, but don't know how. Any ideas?If you are a windows user and have MS Word check the Character Map for the symbol and near the bottom you will see the shortcut Key: for each symbol.On Windows 2007 click the down arrow under the Symbol on the Insert teb and then click More Symbols for the map.To answer your question for the character you want use: Ctrl+/Shift+O and you will get the slash thru the letter O.Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPennington Posted March 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 If you are a windows user and have MS Word check the Character Map for the symbol and near the bottom you will see the shortcut Key: for each symbol.On Windows 2007 click the down arrow under the Symbol on the Insert teb and then click More Symbols for the map.To answer your question for the character you want use: Ctrl+/Shift+O and you will get the slash thru the letter O.JackI'm using TNG software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackM375 Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 I'm using TNG software.Have you tried to use a word processor program and then Copy and Past the symbol into the text file?Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPennington Posted March 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Have you tried to use a word processor program and then Copy and Past the symbol into the text file?JackTha worked thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darin Flansburg Posted April 6, 2009 Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 Tha worked thanks.There is a much easier way to get the "ø" letter. When using a non mac computer hold down the left alt key and with the right hand on the keypad (it has to be the keypad) type in 0248.You can do all the letters like thisØ=alt + 0216æ=alt + 145etc...Darin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougcouch Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 In addition to the hardware call using the Alt key combination, if you want the character hard-coded into your page for any reason, you can enter the HTML version of the ASCII code: numeric code with an amphersand and pound sign before and a semi-colon after. There are other versions but this works consistently. While many common non-English characters are available this way (both Alt key and hard-code), some characters are not available and/or will not display on a web page without some extra work...Charset=UTF-8 is required in these cases, in the head tag area of the HTML page code. Example:<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">An example where this is required is with using the Russian alphabet.I believe TNG uses UTF-8 setting on all the pages it generates, so you shouldn't run into any problems...but mentioned here in case you use them on HTML or other pages you create.For a list of such codes (used with number only for Alt key, or with full syntax for HTML code), see URL below. For Alt key use, convert the numbers to 4-digit numbers, as the 3-digit versions call "extended ASCII" such as box part characters. In other words, Alt+216 will get the ╪ box character, whereas amphersand pound sign 0216 semi-colon will get the Ø character. When hard-coded, both 3-digit and 4-digit usages will bring the same result (i.e.-Ø). The characters in the first table at the following URL are in the Western ISO 8859-1 character set. If a page (or keyboard installation) uses a different character set, you will see different characters for these numbers and will need to search up the correct table for that character set. Typically, you won't run into that problem.http://biega.com/special-char.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Roy Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 In addition to the hardware call using the Alt key combination, if you want the character hard-coded into your page for any reason, you can enter the HTML version of the ASCII code: numeric code with an amphersand and pound sign before and a semi-colon after. There are other versions but this works consistently. While many common non-English characters are available this way (both Alt key and hard-code), some characters are not available and/or will not display on a web page without some extra work...Charset=UTF-8 is required in these cases, in the head tag area of the HTML page code. Example:<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">An example where this is required is with using the Russian alphabet.I believe TNG uses UTF-8 setting on all the pages it generates, so you shouldn't run into any problems...but mentioned here in case you use them on HTML or other pages you create.For a list of such codes (used with number only for Alt key, or with full syntax for HTML code), see URL below. For Alt key use, convert the numbers to 4-digit numbers, as the 3-digit versions call "extended ASCII" such as box part characters. In other words, Alt+216 will get the ╪ box character, whereas amphersand pound sign 0216 semi-colon will get the Ø character. When hard-coded, both 3-digit and 4-digit usages will bring the same result (i.e.-Ø). The characters in the first table at the following URL are in the Western ISO 8859-1 character set. If a page (or keyboard installation) uses a different character set, you will see different characters for these numbers and will need to search up the correct table for that character set. Typically, you won't run into that problem.http://biega.com/special-char.htmlTNG uses the CHARSET based on what you specified during install for the Language. It defaults to ISO-8859-1 unless you changed it to UTF-8. You should always specify the character set that matches the one in your TNG database definition. See the TNG Wiki articles on Charset and specifically the one on Setup - LanguageIf you are creating user-pages, then using the HTML special characters such as ampersand (spelled out to avoid the formating)+amp+semi-colon will render correctly in both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 pages if you ever change your character set definition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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