Entering unicode codes with letters

[Legobricks]

I know how to enter a code, but when I press the letter at the end (if there is one; this works fine for codes without letters), as in +014D, nothing happens (or whatever Alt+D does in the current program happens instead).

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

I think you're going to have to convert the hexadecimal code into its decimal form; 0x014D would correspond to 333 in base 10.

 

[Legobricks]

Right... I was doing that right originally then. I used to enter Alt+0333 which would yield ō, but has yielded M since an OS install maybe a year ago. I thought it might by my regional/language settings at the time but reverting those made no difference.

 

[InMooseWeTrust]

Use this guide to change your keyboard layout:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560

United States-International covers most layouts in European languages. The layout will look like this if you use a standard US keyboard:
http://www.brazil-help.com/US-International.jpg

If you're looking at the Character Map in Windows, the «+0214D» is NOT what you type to get the symbol. It's a hexadecimal Unicode address that refers to where the character is stored in font data.