Typing foreign characters in RunRev

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 2:52 PM +0000 2/14/05, Frank Leahy wrote:
>Thanks, but I was looking for something that would emulate the way 
>that it's done in every piece of software except Rev -- hold down 
>option key and type "u", see floating dots, type "u" and get ümlaut.

I use Mac software all day and have never seen this. (I don't use 
Mail.app, though.) So I suspect it's a custom routine.

>And a final question, does anyone know where the floating dots (or 
>floating accent or floating tilda) characters are stored, and how to 
>show them in a Rev field?

I don't remember the ASCII offhand, but you can get an accent 
character by itself by pressing the relevant key twice. (For example, 
to get an umlaut, press option-u option-u.)
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