PC users-- alt-characters not working

bsdmike · Post by **bsdmike** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 11:38 am

I use a mac, so I don't notice this, but it seems at least one PC user of my forum is having trouble with 'alt characters'.
Here are some examples

Alt155 ¢
Alt172 ¼
Alt171 ½
Alt248 °

If you are a PC user, it seems if you enable numlock on your PC, then hold the alt key and type those numbers above, you get those special characters. They have recently stopped working...but it seems, only on PHPBB...(and I have not done an upgrade!)

Does anybody have any thoughts on this?
Thank you,
-Mike

RMcGirr83 · Post by **RMcGirr83** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 12:11 pm

¢
¼
½
°

They seem to be working fine on this forum. What version of phpBB are you using?

bsdmike · Post by **bsdmike** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 12:21 pm

I am running 3.1.10. (I know, it is time to upgrade!)

I will find a PC and give it a try myself.

Any thoughts to anything locally that might be turned on in a browser that would do it?

Thank you,

-Mike

david63 · Post by **david63** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 12:38 pm

Perhaps a link to your board would help then we can see for ourselves what is/is not happening

Post by **Mick** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:03 pm

With a regular user log in credentials.

Why are you’re users trying to use ASCII? That’s beyond DOS.

bsdmike · Post by **bsdmike** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:54 am

Found a PC to try.
The characters do seem to work, so it must be something local to his system.

Post by **stevemaury** » Sat Dec 09, 2017 3:23 pm

My guess is he does not have NumLock on.

Post by **Mick** » Sat Dec 09, 2017 6:53 pm

There’s a possibility it’s an AT keyboard