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Keyboard ASCII code chart needed
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Sep 3, 2011, 03:46 PM
 
Is there any app for Macs which will display an ASCII code chart for all the keys on the keyboard? Preferably it would give the codes in both hexadecimal and decimal.
     
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Sep 3, 2011, 03:55 PM
 
ASCII is ASCII, any chart should work.
     
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Sep 3, 2011, 04:15 PM
 
     
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Sep 3, 2011, 04:38 PM
 
Thanks, I bookmarked it.
Now I am puzzled about something. I wanted to use a filename starting character with an ASCII code larger than that for z, to put a file at the end of a file listing and keep it there, so tried to use a tilde, then a pipe symbol when the tilde failed to do it. A filename beginning with those symbols is listed first, not last. Why? Tilde has a code of 7E, and pipe is 7C, while lower case z is 7A. Does Mac OS not list names in ASCII order?
     
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Sep 4, 2011, 11:46 AM
 
Google is your friend:

First/Last List Items: The standard way to get a file to sort at the top of the list in OS 9 is to put a space before its name, and to get it to sort at the bottom, a tilde or a bullet. In OS X both space and tilde/bullet put an item at the top of a list. To move a file name to the bottom, you can preface it with a Greek letter like mu (Option-m), omega (Option-z) or pi (Option-p).
     
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Sep 5, 2011, 12:43 AM
 
Thanks very much.
     
   
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