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Post by Relenoir on Apr 8, 2005 3:20:58 GMT
You know... the administrator can set the swear check and what words it grabs at, so maybe we should ask Thomas or somebody. Really, it's not so much up to Thomas as what the built in rules are. Otherwise, I'm sure he'd have made it accept the likes of Agarash's title!
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Post by Nathan P. Mahney on Apr 8, 2005 8:50:19 GMT
I could have sworn that he DID fix the Agarash thing... Lemme check.
Agarash the Damned.
Huzzah! OK, lemme try another:
[very *friendly* person]ar.
Ah, [fudge] it.
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Post by Peregrine on Apr 8, 2005 10:04:41 GMT
I still don't get why people have difficulty getting the forum to display Slûtar's name. ;D *sniggers*
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Post by Zipp on Apr 8, 2005 17:43:10 GMT
Really, it's not so much up to Thomas as what the built in rules are. Otherwise, I'm sure he'd have made it accept the likes of Agarash's title! It might not be controlled by Thomas, but I know that on the Silencer Forums, I was the one who got to set swear word editing and which words to edit. And I didn't
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Post by Relenoir on Apr 9, 2005 2:18:33 GMT
I still don't get why people have difficulty getting the forum to display Slûtar's name. ;D *sni ggers* Oh, sure must be nice to have those fancy keys! ~Relenoir, who might be able to get the carat to show above the 'u' if he knew anything about programming type.
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Post by Peregrine on Apr 9, 2005 11:43:21 GMT
Actually it's bloody horrible if you learnt on a normal US keyboard layout, as I did (and got to spend two weeks using a friend's European QWERTZ keyboard last December).
The Windows extended character input method for u with circumflex is Alt+0251. Hold down Alt (I'm told it should be the left one but this may only matter on the aforementioned weird keyboards, where right Alt is 'Alt Gr') and type 0251 on the numeric keypad. (Make sure Num Lock is on, of course.) Then release the Alt key.
For reference, à is Alt+0224, ÿ is Alt+0255, and various accented characters are arranged in between, alphabetically. (The one I use most is é, Alt+0233. It's also the only one I can remember with certainty off the top of my head; I usually take a few goes to find the others.)
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Post by Thomas Wolmer on Apr 9, 2005 11:59:52 GMT
Actually it's bloody horrible if you learnt on a normal US keyboard layout, as I did (and got to spend two weeks using a friend's European QWERTZ keyboard last December). Aargh! That is a German abberation, not any sort of European standard. It's just as awful to me as to US typers. Most European keyboards will have the standard Latin letters in the normal locations (unless it's a Cyrilic or Greek keyboard, of course , but the rest...
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Post by Peregrine on Apr 9, 2005 13:29:04 GMT
Well then, the German-speaking Swiss have it too and inflict it on their French-speaking compatriots. Speaking of which, I blame my parochial Swiss friend for giving me the impression that 'accented keys for European languages' and 'QWERTZ layout' went hand in hand. Still, that's just one switch... all the punctuation being moved is worse!
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Post by Black Cat on Apr 9, 2005 22:49:19 GMT
Huh...I thought that there was only two standards for keyboards: the AZERTY for French, and the QWERTY for the rest of the world. Besides, I have a QWERTY and I can do all the â and the é and the ù, the ç, the ï. I really like the ° and the ² & the µ, although I don't use all of them. ;D
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Post by Zipp on Apr 11, 2005 7:31:47 GMT
You're also forgetting that the orientals have many variations on the classic keyboard.
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Post by Doomy on Apr 11, 2005 9:40:27 GMT
One really annoying one is that Macs have the " and @ swapped around for no apparent reason - infuriating!
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Post by North Star on Apr 11, 2005 14:07:52 GMT
One that gets me that in many games and MUDS with inbuilt "typewriters", my UK layout is effectively switched to US layout (notably " and @) and particularly without the £ symbol above the 3! Of course, if you're using MS Word, you can simply do Ctrl+',e. Also, a little random playing around gives the pound sign as Alt-0163. Thanks for finally telling me how that works!
NS.
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Post by Black Cat on Apr 11, 2005 19:56:33 GMT
One that gets me that in many games and MUDS with inbuilt "typewriters", my UK layout is effectively switched to US layout (notably " and @) and particularly without the £ symbol above the 3! Of course, if you're using MS Word, you can simply do Ctrl+',e. Also, a little random playing around gives the pound sign as Alt-0163. Thanks for finally telling me how that works! NS. Wow, I just need to type AltCar-3 to get the £ symbol! I think that I have to consider myself lucky!
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Post by Zipp on Apr 12, 2005 0:49:07 GMT
One really annoying one is that Macs have the " and @ swapped around for no apparent reason - infuriating! Meh? Not mine.
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Post by Peregrine on Apr 12, 2005 4:45:50 GMT
Shift-2 being " is (correct me if I'm wrong again) a European thing -- more widespread than QWERTZ or AZERTY, though. Shift-2 being @ is the US layout. I'm sure the Macs are just imitating those norms but with different localisation rigours.
(The old Commodore 64, bless its 8-bit European heart, had " on the 2 as well. That and the Swiss keyboard I mentioned are the only occasions I've seen it so.)
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