>>>In this case you can skip the 0, in other words Alt+229, Alt+228 and so on.
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>>Without the 0, what is returned is the character in the OEM code page that may be or not coincident with ANSI (I never knew of a case in which they might be coincident, before, but I'll take your word for it). For instance, in most of the western systems, ALT 229 returns Õ, which is CHR(229) in the 850 code page, and CHR(213) in ANSI.
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>>? ASC(CPCONVERT(850,1252,CHR(229)))
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>Sorry, you're right and I am wrong.

No problem, I couldn't tell for sure if your scenario is possible or not (and I still can't, of course), and I appreciate that you let me know I wasn't inaccurate on this one.