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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Lone Eagle)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Thu Feb 28 05:50:01 2002
>My .02¥
>
>Zebulin

How have you managed to get your barred "Y" (yen symbol)? I've been trying
for AGES!!!!!!!


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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Zebulin Magby)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Thu Feb 28 10:35:01 2002
"Lone Eagle" <loneeagle2061@*******.com> wrote:

> >My .02¥
> >
> >Zebulin
>
> How have you managed to get your barred "Y" (yen symbol)? I've been trying
> for AGES!!!!!!!
>

You just press ALT and type 0165 and then let go of the ALT key.
Alternatively, if you have a windoze system with the character map on it,
you can find it (and other nifty itemsT) in there.

Zebulin


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Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Chris Beilby)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Thu Feb 28 11:35:01 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lone Eagle" <loneeagle2061@*******.com>
To: <shadowrn@*********.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)


> >My .02¥
> >
> >Zebulin
>
> How have you managed to get your barred "Y" (yen symbol)? I've been trying
> for AGES!!!!!!!

Have you tried the Character map utility? It's not present in all fonts,
but it's there.
Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Rev. Mike Martin)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Thu Feb 28 11:55:04 2002
Lone Eagle wrote:
>
> >My .02¥
> >
> >Zebulin
>
> How have you managed to get your barred "Y" (yen symbol)? I've been trying
> for AGES!!!!!!!

Hold down your ALT key and enter 0165. It should give you a ¥ character
(at least on US keyboards).

Mike
Message no. 5
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Lone Eagle)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Thu Feb 28 12:10:01 2002
>From: "Rev. Mike Martin" <ld_hrothgar@*****.com>
>Lone Eagle wrote:
> >
> > >My .02¥
> > >
> > >Zebulin
> >
> > How have you managed to get your barred "Y" (yen symbol)? I've been
>trying
> > for AGES!!!!!!!
>
> Hold down your ALT key and enter 0165. It should give you a ¥ character
>(at least on US keyboards).

I don't have a problem in word (or most other apps) I had it set up on
ctrl+alt+Y but for some reason it doesn't seem to work when I write mail!
cheers for all the responses

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Message no. 6
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Meph)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Thu Feb 28 12:25:01 2002
> Hold down your ALT key and enter 0165. It should give you a ¥ character
>(at least on US keyboards).


And mine only works if I use the num pad!

Meph
Message no. 7
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Thu Feb 28 13:20:17 2002
According to Lone Eagle, on Thu, 28 Feb 2002 the word on the street was...

> >My .02¥
>
> How have you managed to get your barred "Y" (yen symbol)? I've been
> trying for AGES!!!!!!!

On a Windows machine, this is easily done by holding down Alt and pressing
the numbers 0, 1, 6 and 5 on the numeric keypad. If it doesn't work, make
sure NumLock is on and try again.

(BTW, if anyone knows how to achieve the same on a Linux box, please let me
know -- I haven't been able to discover any way myself :( )

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Message no. 8
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Mikko V. I. Parviainen)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Fri Mar 1 03:50:01 2002
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Gurth wrote:
> > >My .02¥
> (BTW, if anyone knows how to achieve the same on a Linux box, please let me
> know -- I haven't been able to discover any way myself :( )

Try a utility called xkeycaps. With it you can interactively
look at what your keyboard produces and change the key codings.

xkeycaps comes with instructions, of course. I used it just a few days ago
to map my laptops caps lock key to control key, because caps lock is just
useless.

This will obviously only help when using X. I don't have much experience
with fiddling around with text consoles, as I use them very rarely.

Of course, your font must have the character, but that will probably not
be a problem, if you see the yen sign above. B-)

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Message no. 9
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Shiva Khan)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Sat Mar 2 03:35:05 2002
>On a Windows machine, this is easily done by holding down Alt and
pressin= g the numbers 0, 1, 6 and 5 on the >numeric keypad. If it
doesn't work, make= sure NumLock is on and try again.

I have been able to create the ¥ symbol by holding down the ALT key and
pressing 157 on the NUM pad with numlock turned on. If I remember right
I was able to use the same combo on a Mac system but I will not say for
sure. That was a long time ago and I do not know anyone with a Mac
anymore. I do not know if it will work on a Linux box but I say give it
a try and let me know.

Shiva Khan
Message no. 10
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Sat Mar 2 06:05:01 2002
According to Shiva Khan, on Thu, 28 Feb 2002 the word on the street was...

> I have been able to create the ¥ symbol by holding down the ALT key and
> pressing 157 on the NUM pad with numlock turned on.

That works too, because the yen symbol is #157 in the old IBM character
set, IIRC, but is #165 in ISO-8859 character sets, which Windows TrueType
fonts use(d); the distinguish between the two, you need to type a 0 first
to get the ISO-8859 characters.

> I do not know if it will work on a Linux box but I say give it
> a try and let me know.

It doesn't, which is why I asked :)

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V? PS+ PE@ Y PGP- t@ 5++ X(+) R+++$ tv+(++) b++@ DI- D+ G+ e h! !r y?
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Message no. 11
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Chris Beilby)
Subject: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)
Date: Sat Mar 2 10:20:01 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shiva Khan" <shiva@*********.net>
To: <shadowrn@*********.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: (OT Shadowrun CD and piracy)


> >On a Windows machine, this is easily done by holding down Alt and
> pressin= g the numbers 0, 1, 6 and 5 on the >numeric keypad. If it
> doesn't work, make= sure NumLock is on and try again.
>
> I have been able to create the ¥ symbol by holding down the ALT key and
> pressing 157 on the NUM pad with numlock turned on. If I remember right
> I was able to use the same combo on a Mac system but I will not say for
> sure. That was a long time ago and I do not know anyone with a Mac
> anymore. I do not know if it will work on a Linux box but I say give it
> a try and let me know.

Both methods work on Windows.

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