It remains to be seen if Loreen will conquer the world!
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I thought the song was just okay... typical commercial pop, not really my style. The performance style was interesting though. She came across to me as a witch casting some sort of magical spell.starstruck wrote:As for Loreen, congratulations to her and Sweden, but I'm not sure she'll quite have the appeal and staying power that Abba undoubtedly had.
I press ALT and number 3 at the same time, when you let go of pressing the keys, the heart appears, see ♥♥♥♥♥♥Ann wrote:Moonlady, thanks for spelling "Sweden" in Swedish!![]()
So you don't have a TV. Well, I watch very little TV, but I would miss it if I didn't have one. I do watch the news and weather report on TV, usually at six o'clock, every night.
I agree with you that the Russian ladies were adorable, particularly the 86-year-old! I enjoyed the Irish twins, too: not so that I would vote for them, but they were fun to see. The Danish girl left me relatively unimpressed, though.
As for Turkey, it was actually one of my favorites! I loved when they turned their clothes into a "boat"!
Tell me, Moonlady, where did you find those hearts? I have sometimes wanted to use a heart, but I haven't found any really small hearts when I have googled for them. And there are definitely no hearts on my keyboard!
Ann
The Turks went sailing off into the sunset nakedAnn wrote:I loved when they turned their clothes into a "boat"!
I'd think she has a German keyboard, which outputs different keycodes than yours. That heart character is a dangerous one to use in a forum like this, because it doesn't map to an escaped HTML character. That means there's no guarantee that others will see it as the author does. It all depends on your character set. The character is Unicode 2665, called "Black Heart Suit". The whole deck is there if you have the right character set in your browser: ♠♣♥♦.Beyond wrote:Moonlady, you've got a strange keyboard. Alt + 3 = 3 on my board. it does get a bit heavy when i shift though. Shift + 3 = #
What does "Unicode" mean, Chris? Can I find it on a "normal" keyboard?The character is Unicode 2665, called "Black Heart Suit".
owlice wrote:Ann, Google is your friend: http://unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html
In Windows, you can use Character Map (built into the system- just type "charmap" in the Run box if you don't already have a shortcut) to find all the characters available in each of your installed fonts, to copy and paste them into a document, or to see the ALT-numpad code (for instance, I use the degree symbol a lot, ALT-0176). In OSX, when you have the cursor where you want to place a special character, click on Edit, Special Characters to bring up the Character Palette. There are multiple utilities in Linux distributions for this.Beyond wrote:Moonlady, you forgot to mention to use the numbers on the right side of the keyboard when pressing Alt. ♥ you anyway. :lol2: I was going to show what you get with each number, but when i hit the fourth one, my post disappeared. So you all will just have to find out for yourselves.☺
Edit....upon further investigation, some of the ALT-number combinations make the post you are doing disappear. If you're doing an edit, the original post stays. So you will have to go through them all to find out what they produce and which numbers make your post disappear. IF i have time later, i might just do that and make a post of it, IF someone faster than i doesn't beat me to it. :mrgreen: Here's #13-->♪
But that wouldn't answer the question Ann asked to which I was replying (even though my name isn't ChrisMoonlady wrote:Owlice use this one: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+do+you+make+th ... d+emoticonowlice wrote:Ann, Google is your friend: http://unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html
True, but it's a little awkward, isn't it? So there are are lots of keyboard variants for different languages that feature standard alphabetic and symbolic characters on their own keys.owlice wrote:I don't have a German keyboard, but I can still type letters such as é, ü, and ç, and symbols such as °.
Who on earth uses not the numbers on the right side?Beyond wrote:Moonlady, you forgot to mention to use the numbers on the right side of the keyboard when pressing Alt. ♥ you anyway.I was going to show what you get with each number, but when i hit the fourth one, my post disappeared. So you all will just have to find out for yourselves.☺
Edit....upon further investigation, some of the ALT-number combinations make the post you are doing disappear. If you're doing an edit, the original post stays. So you will have to go through them all to find out what they produce and which numbers make your post disappear. IF i have time later, i might just do that and make a post of it, IF someone faster than i doesn't beat me to it.Here's #13-->♪
Me, for one. This is the first time i've ever used them. I guess that i'm just Beyond it all.Moonlady wrote:Who on earth uses not the numbers on the right side?
People who've never had to enter numbers other than on an occasional basis. And especially, people who use laptops, which more often than not don't have keyboards with separate number pads.Moonlady wrote:Who on earth uses not the numbers on the right side?
No. Or rather, maybe only for a character I don't type often (such as a thorn þ), but for letters with common accents, no.Chris Peterson wrote:True, but it's a little awkward, isn't it?owlice wrote:I don't have a German keyboard, but I can still type letters such as é, ü, and ç, and symbols such as °.
Yeah, I used to have a Hungarian keyboard, but don't recall ever using it. No need to; I can get accents/diacriticals where I need them.Chris Peterson wrote:So there are are lots of keyboard variants for different languages that feature standard alphabetic and symbolic characters on their own keys.
Thanks Chris. I did the run-box thing and took a look at it, and figured i'd save trying to figure it out for next century, when i know i won't have anything to do.Chris Peterson wrote:In Windows, you can use Character Map (built into the system- just type "charmap" in the Run box if you don't already have a shortcut) to find all the characters available in each of your installed fonts, to copy and paste them into a document, or to see the ALT-numpad code (for instance, I use the degree symbol a lot, ALT-0176). In OSX, when you have the cursor where you want to place a special character, click on Edit, Special Characters to bring up the Character Palette. There are multiple utilities in Linux distributions for this.Beyond wrote:Moonlady, you forgot to mention to use the numbers on the right side of the keyboard when pressing Alt. ♥ you anyway.I was going to show what you get with each number, but when i hit the fourth one, my post disappeared. So you all will just have to find out for yourselves.☺
Edit....upon further investigation, some of the ALT-number combinations make the post you are doing disappear. If you're doing an edit, the original post stays. So you will have to go through them all to find out what they produce and which numbers make your post disappear. IF i have time later, i might just do that and make a post of it, IF someone faster than i doesn't beat me to it.Here's #13-->♪
Again, however, many of these characters tend to be font-specific, which means you shouldn't generally use them when posting to a forum like this. Safe characters are those with HTML escape codes (for instance, when I use the degree symbol in HTML, it should be inserted as °, not the actual symbol from a font- otherwise, it will be rendered incorrectly for people using fonts that have the degree symbol in a different location). That escaping is usually handled automatically by forum software, so you can actually use the character, and the forum software should replace it with the HTML escape code automatically. But the bottom line is this: if the character you want to use isn't in this list, think twice about using it. Good practice says any other characters should be inserted as images, not text.