A strange character.

[James Silverton]

Can anyone tell me what is the symbol produced by ALT+025 in Word? It looks
like a Chinese ideogram but I know no Chinese. I have seen it on web pages
too but that may be by mistake.

 

[Gary Smith]

Can anyone tell me what is the symbol produced by ALT+025 in Word? It looks
like a Chinese ideogram but I know no Chinese. I have seen it on web pages
too but that may be by mistake.

Are you sure you typed that code correctly? What font are you using? I
get nothing but the open box that is substituted when there's no glyph in
the font for a given code. That's to be expected since ASCII 25 is a
control code which has no associated glyph.

 

[James Silverton]

Are you sure you typed that code correctly? What font are you using? I
get nothing but the open box that is substituted when there's no glyph in
the font for a given code. That's to be expected since ASCII 25 is a
control code which has no associated glyph.

Thanks for the reply. The same Chinese character was quite easily produced
in several fonts but it was not just 025 that gave it but several
others.Your confident reply made me think along other lines and consider
hardware especially since the Chinese character that I got today proved not
the same as yesterdays! I realized that the batteries in my cordless
keyboard were the originals, replaced them and, after setting up the
keyboard again, I am getting the expected empty boxes tho' the batteries
test OK! It's weird but I suspect there may have been some form of poor
contact.

A "post mortem" seems impossible but thanks again (even if hindsight
indicated that a hardware ng might have been better The keyboard *was*
made in China for Logitech and perhaps there are some "Easter Eggs" in it!
(Or, should I say "Thousand Year Old Eggs!)

 

[Gary Smith]

Thanks for the reply. The same Chinese character was quite easily produced
in several fonts but it was not just 025 that gave it but several
others.Your confident reply made me think along other lines and consider
hardware especially since the Chinese character that I got today proved not
the same as yesterdays! I realized that the batteries in my cordless
keyboard were the originals, replaced them and, after setting up the
keyboard again, I am getting the expected empty boxes tho' the batteries
test OK! It's weird but I suspect there may have been some form of poor
contact.

I'm really glad to hear that the problem was probably hardware-related. I
shudder to think what kind of software malfunction would be necessary to
produce those symptoms. "Eggs in the keyboard" is a great diagnosis!