[texworks] Alt+123 doesn't produce '{'

[Alain Delmotte]

Hummmm!

You are right, no chance.
But in fact it could be.

At least for me when I use AltGR+key under TW I get nothing 
many times before to get the character. (example AltGr+ù and 
E to get É)0 but Alt+0123 gives {.
So in fact I defined some TW completion shortcuts to get the 
characters. But for just { and }???!!

Alain

Le 2/03/2012 0:52, Paul A Norman a écrit :
> Thanks Alain,
>
> Is there any chance that an application on a person's
> computer using such a key board would be likely to change
> the indirect coding (like Alt 123) as well?
> Paul
>
> On 2 March 2012 03:03, Alain Delmotte <esperanto at swing.be
> <mailto:esperanto at swing.be>> wrote:
>
>     Hi!
>
>     Le 1/03/2012 4:31, Paul A Norman a écrit :
>
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I am sitting here looking at my keyboard thinking
>         there is a
>         lovely capital square bracket that makes a { for me
>         ... so
>         why would someone want to make a { by typing Alt
>         0123 (note
>         the 0 would be needed for some codes to work - but
>         not for a
>         {  ).
>
>
>     Norman, this is most probably a problem of not US/QWERTY
>     keyboard.
>
>     For me on a Belgian AZERTY keyboard it is very difficult
>     to get É, À,... under TeXworks.
>     If I want the { I have to use AltGr+ç (that is the key
>     with ç-9)
>
>     I think this has already been noted in the problem list.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Alain
>
>
>         So then I think has niverde changed their windows
>         control
>         page code, (Edit/Preferences) TeXworks editing
>         font, (Edit/Preferences) TeXworks editor code page, or
>         something so that you actually do need to type Alt
>         123 to
>         get a capital opening square bracket... {
>
>         Have you tried to reassign something in another
>         programme/application that effects the whole operating
>         system? Perhaps answered a question during an install of
>         another application?
>
>         Or was Alt 123 just an example, and you can actually
>         still
>         just type a } on your key board when you want it?
>
>         Paul
>
>
>         On 1 March 2012 04:16, Stefan Löffler
>         <st.loeffler at gmail.com <mailto:st.loeffler at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:st.loeffler at gmail.com
>         <mailto:st.loeffler at gmail.com>> > wrote:
>
>             Hi,
>
>             On 2012-02-29 13:52, niverde at anche.no
>         <mailto:niverde at anche.no>
>         <mailto:niverde at anche.no <mailto:niverde at anche.no>>
>         wrote:
>          > Help me! The command 'alt 123'  do not  produce '{'
>             but 'i' in my
>          > TeXworks editor. I would like restabilish  it.
>
>             It works as expected for me on Windows XP...
>
>             Did you try other "alt" codes? Do they produce the
>             expected characters?
>             If not, is there a pattern to it?
>
>             HTH
>             Stefan
>
>
>
>
>