I've noticed that on the Internet it is fairly hard to look up cliches. I've only found two websites that have lists of cliches, but they only have one sentence about each cliche. I created the entry [[List of cliches]], but maybe there should be a different wikipedia for cliches. Am I just crazy?
On a related note, how do you make a e with an accent mark?
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:39:40 -0500, Daniel Ehrenberg name12323@hotmail.com wrote:
I've noticed that on the Internet it is fairly hard to look up cliches. I've only found two websites that have lists of cliches, but they only have one sentence about each cliche. I created the entry [[List of cliches]], but maybe there should be a different wikipedia for cliches. Am I just crazy?
On a related note, how do you make a e with an accent mark?
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name12323@hotmail.com wrote:
On a related note, how do you make a e with an accent mark?
on win 98/2000, use"
ALT+0233 for � ALT+0232 for � and Ta-daa ALT+0234 for �
note: you must use the keypad to enter these characters.
Press ALT key, type all 4 numbers (zero inluded), then release ALT key.
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Christopher Mahan wrote:
name12323@hotmail.com wrote:
On a related note, how do you make a e with an accent mark?
on win 98/2000, use"
ALT+0233 for é ALT+0232 for è and Ta-daa ALT+0234 for ê
note: you must use the keypad to enter these characters.
Press ALT key, type all 4 numbers (zero inluded), then release ALT key.
Strange, I basically answered LittleDan in the same way, but your message appeared with question marks in black diamonds, but mine came back to me OK. The quoted message above in this reply now also appears correct.
This seems to have something to to with the source coding. On yours it was
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On mine it was Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Eclecticology
--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Christopher Mahan wrote:
name12323@hotmail.com wrote:
On a related note, how do you make a e with an accent mark?
on win 98/2000, use"
ALT+0233 for � ALT+0232 for � and Ta-daa ALT+0234 for �
note: you must use the keypad to enter these characters.
Press ALT key, type all 4 numbers (zero inluded), then release ALT
key.
Strange, I basically answered LittleDan in the same way, but your message appeared with question marks in black diamonds, but mine came back to me OK. The quoted message above in this reply now also appears correct.
This seems to have something to to with the source coding. On yours it was
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On mine it was Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8;
Yeah, in Unicode, it's little questioning diamonds.
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--- Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Christopher Mahan wrote:
name12323@hotmail.com wrote:
On a related note, how do you make a e with an accent mark?
on win 98/2000, use"
ALT+0233 for � ALT+0232 for � and Ta-daa ALT+0234 for �
note: you must use the keypad to enter these characters.
Press ALT key, type all 4 numbers (zero inluded), then release
ALT
key.
Strange, I basically answered LittleDan in the same way, but your
message appeared with question marks in black diamonds, but mine came back to me OK. The quoted message above in this reply now also appears correct.
This seems to have something to to with the source coding. On yours it was
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On mine it was Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8;
Yeah, in Unicode, it's little questioning diamonds.
Using Unicode this time: è é ê
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Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
I've noticed that on the Internet it is fairly hard to look up cliches. I've only found two websites that have lists of cliches, but they only have one sentence about each cliche. I created the entry [[List of cliches]], but maybe there should be a different wikipedia for cliches. Am I just crazy?
I've looked at what you've started, and it's interesting. Still it seems like the sort of thing that may be more suited to Wiktionary than Wikipedia.
On a related note, how do you make a e with an accent mark?
There are several ways to go about this, but what works for me on the characters in ISO 8859-1 is the following that always use the numbers from the numeric keypad, and always include the leading "0".
For è use Alt + 0232 For é use Alt + 0233 For ê use Alt + 0234 For ë use Alt + 0235 The coresponding capitals use numbers that are 32 less.
Eclecticology
Daniel Ehrenberg wrote at last:
On a related note, how do you make a e with an accent mark?
See [[Wikipedia:Special characters]]. The "Entity" column in the table (with all the "&...;" stuff) shows how to create special characters using only ASCII input.
Why is this a good idea? (I claim that it is on [[en:]].) Because some people have browsers that mangle anything else. (Anthere's browser famously mangles non-Latin-1 characters -- and no insult meant to you, Anthere, you're just a well known example -- and I have occasionally seen even Latin-1 but non-ASCII characters mangled by various anonymous editors.) In particular, "é" is "é".
You would want to input the "é" directly on, say, [[fr:]]; how to do that depends on your browser, operating system, and keyboard.
-- Toby
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Toby Bartels wrote:
See [[Wikipedia:Special characters]]. The "Entity" column in the table (with all the "&...;" stuff) shows how to create special characters using only ASCII input.
Why is this a good idea? (I claim that it is on [[en:]].)
Well, it's a bad idea at present because it breaks our search engine. A directly input e-acute will be searchable, while é is not.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
Why is this a good idea? (I claim that it is on [[en:]].)
Well, it's a bad idea at present because it breaks our search engine. A directly input e-acute will be searchable, while é is not.
Blast!
I guess this means that I'll be inputting them directly on most pages, but using HTML entities on pages like [[Talk:Main Page]], which are not so much searched for but frequently edited by random users.
-- Toby
Brion Vibber wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
Why is this a good idea? (I claim that it is on [[en:]].)
Well, it's a bad idea at present because it breaks our search engine. A directly input e-acute will be searchable, while é is not.
Blast!
I guess this means that I'll be inputting them directly on most pages, but using HTML entities on pages like [[Talk:Main Page]], which are not so much searched for but frequently edited by random users.
-- Toby