ascii

okay so i was talking/arguing with keith last night regarding ascii codes.
he was correct technically, but not practically.
i searched long and hard (when i should have been doing other things, probably but my hands are cold so i am staying by the warm, power-sucking personal electric heater), and finally found the table(s) that i printed a couple years ago. they can be found here. these set of tables are the best i have found for practicle use.
now, keith was correct in saying that ascii values are ascii values, regardless of os. that would be the whole point of having a standard.
i am correct in saying that entering them is a different matter. you will note that i used a spiffy degrees symbol in my post "parking pass day 7". this is thanks to the tables telling me how to enter it for html. if you look at the table for the pc, you will note a column for dos and one for windows. i am not totally sure on the reasons why these columns are labeled the way they are but if you follow the directions you do get the desired results. so these means you can either memorize the short cut for degrees in regular text as alt+0176 or alt+167 (ahhh that could get confusing). just be sure to use the number pad in both cases...the regular number keys just don't send the right code, tragically.
so next time you need a weird something for your document or post, you'll know where to look.
even for those mac people you can find the odd short cut keys.