Hi!

The character is entered with correct code. It is just displayed "wrong". How character is displayed is depended on the font used in the application where you enter characters by such way. Find and run "Character Map" utility (You can find it in the Accessuares, it is a part of standard windows installation). You will see there how Windows characters are different from what you know about DOS. MS Word have its own tool to insert special characters (find it in the menu).

HTH.

>Hello friends.
>I have Windows 2000 professional installed and when I try to use "ALT key" to get a special character like "á, é" etc. I receive strange character like little faces. It happens in any windows applications as Word, notepad, etc.
>But when I open a MS-DOS command, the combination works fine.
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>Can anybody tell what can be happening, please???
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>Thanks a lot for any help.