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I'd like to gain on the funny guy scale and let people know their are slow. Usually I do that by pasting something like "hey, dude, don't be 🐌" or when talking about e-mail versus 🐌-mail.
Usually, I copy that character by hand from some webpage or another one but it would be so much cooler to be able to 🐌 up the text without it.
Is there a way to "type" in 🐌 or similar on a laptop running Win 10 without specific software installed and without any special keys on the keyboard? I googled it a bit but the hints didn't work out or required some key combos that I can't see on my computer.
In Windows you can insert a Unicode character up to 255 decimal value by holding down alt and typing the decimal value on the numpad (if you have one) then releasing alt, this won't work for the snail though because it is higher than 255 (128012) so that rules out notepad from being able to do it. But apps like word and other rich text editors can enter Unicode characters by typing there unicode hex values then pressing alt+x so to get a snail you would type U+1f40c[ALT+x] (the U+ is optional) other than that it is up to each program to figure out how they want to do it if at all. Happy 🐌ing!
Hit Windows key and Period key at the same time to open the Windows Emoji Keyboard. Then type "snail" and enter to insert the snail emoji. 🐌
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Is there any way, via settings or a custom script, to force the use of ASCII-only encoding in Outlook 2013?
I often pass one-liners and code snippets between myself and other developers, and we will copy-paste them into a command-line prompt for testing various tools. A common issue is that the editor will replace hyphens - with some wider "full width hyphen" or "dash" character, that gets converted to an accented ASCII character when we paste it into prompts.
Right now, we resolve it by pasting it into GVIM on Windows and running a VIM script to handle the conversion, but it's a pain and can be unreliable, especially for other developers who hate using VIM. Since all correspondence is handled in English, French, or Italian anyways (we don't get picky with accents), there's no need for unicode support. Can we turn it off?
Thanks.
No, and this has nothing to do with Unicode support in Outlook. This is how Outlook editor (Word) works.
EDIT: you can turn smart quotes off in Outlook: http://www.extendoffice.com/documents/outlook/2084-outlook-disable-turn-off-smart-quotes.html
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I was saving a file in notepad, and I got the warning message that the file contained unicode that wouldn't save correctly as ansi. I didn't see any characters that would be a problem, so I opened the file in the console and found these random-looking characters in the text. They aren't visible in notepad at all. Even the space they take up in the console isn't there in notepad. Below I've posted a screenshot of the text in notepad and in the console. What's going on?
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The characters being displayed at the console are the UTF-8 encoding for a Zero Width Space, which would not be visible in Notepad or any other Unicode application. The console doesn't work with Unicode normally, it uses a code page (typically code page 437) to determine which character to display based on the bytes that are output. The UTF-8 encoding of the Zero Width Space is 3 bytes \xe2\x80\x8b so you see 3 characters on the console, doubled up because you have two Zero Width Spaces.
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I seem to have gotten Microsoft Word (from Office 2003) into a weird mode.
If I select some text with the mouse and "type over" it, the new text is inserted before the selected text instead of replacing it. Same thing happens if I use the Delete or Backspace key to eliminate it.
The following do work as expected:
1. backspace over the characters I want to delete, one character per keystroke
2. Same thing with the Delete key
3. control-X to "cut" the text.
Does anybody know how to return to "normal" behavior? And for that matter, how I managed to get into this mode?
You have activated the overwrite function!
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-on-or-off-overtype-mode-2fe125af-505f-4ce7-bbea-f0e64e381e75
The comment by MyDog led me to the right answer:
Tools menu ->Options, select the "Edit" pane and check "Typing Replaces Selection".
I have also found out what causes the problem -- at least the immediate cause. If I copy an image from another app (e.g., Irfanview or MS Paint) and paste it into the Word document, that turns off "typing replaces selection". I'm not sure why MS thought this would be a good idea, or if it's just a bug, but at least now I know what causes it, and that I have to turn typeover back on after pasting an image.
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I often want to type Alt+Shift+~ while using emacs (to run its command "not-modified"). However, since upgrading to Debian Wheezy (which upgraded Gnome to 3.4), I find that when I type those keys, Emacs doesn't "hear" the keystroke; instead, I see a popup window that looks like the window I see when I hit Alt+TAB (except this window only ever has a single icon in it, for Emacs, as opposed to the window that Alt+TAB brings up, which has one icon for each application).
I've fixed many similar stolen-keystroke problems like this in the obvious way: I click my name in the upper-right corner of the screen, choose "System Settings" from the dropdown menu; click the "Keyboard" icon, click the "Shortcuts" tab, and examine every entry on the right side to see if it's the guilty party; if so, I disable it. However, in this particular case, I cannot find any entry that refers to the tilde or the backtick key, so I don't know what to delete.
I've also tried examining the output of gconftool-2 --recursive-list to see if I could find anything likely, but saw nothing that looked relevant.
Some diligent googling for "gnome alt backtick" found this:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-group "['disabled']"
I found it at https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/992928/comments/4
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I have in Word ‘hello’ and when I paste it I get 018hello 019 so the apostrophes turn into these strange characters.
The type of web application should not matter as the behaviour is different depending on the workstation I use.
I checked with Notepad, Excel and Wordpad and this issue does not occur, only for Word.
It should be a Word/IE setting .
Do you know which one ?
Thanks
The quotation marks in word are not the "regular" quotation marks. Word automatically replaces quotations as you type them with fancy ones called "smart quotes". Since your browser does not understand smart quotes it replaces them.
This is known as the Word "smart quotes" feature. There should be a place to turn it off somewhere in the Word settings.
More information can be found at the Quotation mark glyphs Wikipedia article.