I will now unindate you with loads of likkle symbols he-he

[Bobbisox]

I've been wondering how to this for a while, so if your bored with my LOLers and PMSLers, I will change, I promise, till I get bored with them wanway !!!!!
heres how to do it...

1. Make sure your keyboard is in NumLock mode.
2. Hold down the ALT key and enter the number on the numeric keypad. (Note that many laptops have a blue FN key that changes a set of keys, also with blue numbers on them, into a numeric keypad.)

for ☺ 1
for ☻ 2
for ♥ 3
for ♦ 4
for ♣ 5
for ♠ 6
for • 7
for ◘ 8
for ○ 9
for ◙ 10
for ♂ 11
for ♀ 12
for ♪ 13
for ♫ 14
for ☼ 15
for ► 16
for ◄ 17
for ↕ 18
Bobbi x LOL...old habits die hard y'know !

[Bobbisox]

typo wanway !!!!! Chinese or what?
I meant anyway

[ChuckFickens]

my numbers are white on my laptop

[Bobbisox]

I will try it now Chucky ♪♪ , it works ye-ha !!!

[ChuckFickens]

it won't work on my laptop!

[Bobbisox]

whys that ?

[NoMercy]

This is all far too technical for me. You should have seen the trouble I had buying a new charger yesterday, it was only pot luck I came back with the right one....

[Bobbisox]

mine on the right hand of my lappy are just black numbers, but if you press the NUM LOCK, then alt and any of the numbers above, you get.
♫☼...and so on

[Jumbuck]

Works on my laptop (Toshiba) - use Fn+F11 to turn on numeric overlay then

789
UIO
JKL
M<>

becomes

789
456
123
0,.

Only the numeric keyboard will give the required output.

[Bobbisox]

mines a DELL jumbuck, but np here
♥ arhhhh

[ChuckFickens]

it won't work on my laptop because it's a windows feature, and I don't run windows.

[Jumbuck]

Well you are ♂'d without WIndows ☺

[mollykins]

can you do it on any programm on windows?

[ChuckFickens]

Yeah pretty much any program in windows

[Bobbisox]

Chucks you're the maestro here pet, at least I know you know what you are talking about he-he
whereas me ?????

[Jumbuck]

Yes, the normal keys send a keycode that the system understands, this method inputs a keycode value directly e.g if you do ALT-065 you get A, ALT-066 gives B and so on i.e. the letters of the alphabet. I can't remember if the keycode always equates to the ASCII code.

It is independent of which program is being used because it's a function of the keyboard, and so there ought to be a way to do the same on non-Windows machines.

[ChuckFickens]

it's not a function of the keyboard, it is a windows function, on linux I have to use unicode codes for the same effect (I hold down ctrl+shift and press u, that turns my curser into a underlined U, then I type in the code for whatever character I want)

✠
✍

[NoMercy]

Btw Bobbi.... how do you "unindate" ?

;-)

[Bobbisox]

just errrm, don't date..he-he

[NoMercy]

Just ignore me hun.... I'm in an impish mood today ! lol

[Jumbuck]

Well I'm fairly sure that it or a very similar method used to work in DOS before WIndows first appeared.