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Hello people


Does anyone know a way to make your screen name on Messenger in a different font? Is it possible?



thnx,


Lara

There is a way using special characters. Search the forum for it.

இ๑your name here๑இ using these characters in your name will change the style.

as discussed previously in "Mess with your nickname":

๑ is the one that changes the "font"....
இ is the one that resets your font to what it was...

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Originally posted by stu
once we actually have the numbers, how do you convert the numbers to the formatting tag

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The "numbers" are ASCII codes. Every possible letter then you can write has an ASCII code. ASCII codes are put in as ALT+<code>... To put a letter "A" for example you can type ALT+65...

Normal ASCII goes from 0 to 255. Then there are Unicode codes for "special" languages which use different letters (like Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, etc...)

The notation "&#2951;" is the HTML equivalent of ALT+<code>. This is how websites can "produce" the letters.

To write the Unicode character 2951 in programs, you do ALT+2951, thus also in MSN Messenger... Note that in some programs, which don't support "RichText", you wont see the correct character (eg. Notepad), but in programs which do support "RichText" (eg. WordPad) you will see the correct character...

To find other symbols and stuff, use the small Windows tool called CharacterMap. Note that in CharacterMap (and possible other programs and resources) you'll find the numbers written as hexadecimal instead of decimal. The decimal number "2951" would be in hexadecimal: "0B87". So you'll need to convert the hexadecimal number to a decimal number before you can use it....

To find out if there are any other special cases where characters actually "do" things, search the various MSN Messenger resources like mess.be, etc...

Also, the black squares that you sometimes see are nothing more then replacements for the actual character. The replacement is done because sometimes the actual character can't be shown with the current fontsettings...

And don't forget, it only works in some cases though; it depends on what font you use in the conversation window and if your system can handle unicode characters....