Shoutbox

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Originally posted by stu
Yes, random... You cant actually select the font and size that u want

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no not random... Random means "changing all the time", which is not, it always is the same....

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Originally posted by stu
Im not much of a coder, but obviously the numbers இ๑ are what actually change the font and whatever.

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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, do as VuDu said, 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...

it doesnt change for me, just those weird things come up beside my name!

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Originally posted by AndreY
...works only for xp / 2000 /etc.... not win98

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And also, it only works in some cases though, and it also depends on what font you use in the conversation window....

its not very gd, no offence

you can always use msgplus to make the characters white, then they wouldent show up (if the other person has plus)

alt+2951 you can use many other keys instead such as alt+2950 and many more