Alt & (on the number pad)

130 =

 

Any characters numbered above 127 are not guaranteed to be the same for all computers.

 

That's interesting. I wonder why? I've only had number pads on a Dell pc and this HP pc and it's worked on both.

 

[Consultant hat on] ...and for those running Windows on PC's, you can also go to Start, Programs, Accessories, Character Map, and select, copy, and paste any of the special characters. It also gives you the keystroke combination to replicate those characters, in case Martha's cheat sheet doesn't work for you. [/Consultant hat off]

 

0-127 are the original ascii characters. Anything higher (128-255) are "extended" characters. Different sets of "extended" characters were developed before anybody got around to standardizing them. (One guess as to which company was most notorious for ignoring the previous standards, creating its own extended ascii, and then treating it like it was the only possible version....)

 

For instance, see this list, which is different from the one you posted.

 

http://www.jimprice.com/jim-asc.shtml

Another description. This one shows the extended ascii that was invented by IBM and compares it with the extended ascii that was invented by Microsoft.

 

And here's a cool site with some historical discussion of character codes going back to the 1800s. (Morse code is a digital character code. So is Braille. In fact, Braille is literally "digital".) http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/characcodehist.html

 

But my laptop doesn't have a number pad FTL.

I'm having a flashback to the good old days of creating and editing termcap and terminfo source to get Wyse and DEC terminals to do line drawing and just behave in general.

Edit - There's even less standardization with printers and alternate character sets.