Talk:Open O

= Meaningless section (ASCII only has 128 code points) =

In this article I read: “In ASCII, the minuscule ɔ can be typed by pressing Alt+596.”

That has no meaning. ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit character code. Therefore all of its characters have numbers between 0 and 127.

Alt + 596 has nothing to do with ASCII. 596 is the decimal form of the UNICODE number for the character ɔ ( (596)10 = (254)16 ) and Alt + 596 is a way to type this character in a handful of Windows programs. That only works in Windows and not with every piece of software.

Tohuvabohuo (talk) 21:41, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

How do you type the capital form with an alt code?
The article said one could type the capital form by typing Alt+186. I tried it and it doesn't work. Nor does 0186. Can anyone find the correct alt combination and add it to the article? DBlomgren (talk) 19:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks to the table I was able to figure out the Alt codes and added them to the text. Problem solved. It only took three years! DBlomgren (talk) 18:51, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Removed Windows instructions
I'm running Windows 7, arguably a "recent version of Windows", and no combination of these instructions works, with or without leading zeros. Also not working are Alt+0390, Alt+0x186. So I've removed the Windows instructions from the text:



— OwenBlacker (Talk) 20:20, 31 December 2014 (UTC)