which written languages use only standard ascii characters?
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If you mean the 7-bit Latin alphabet (A-Z, a-z), very few languages use it: English, Latin, Romanian and Italian are the only ones I can name. (I'm not sure about Finnish.)  \n\nMost European languages (Germanic, Romance, Scandinavian, etc.) use the Latin alphabet with the extended character set (eg. áíóúñüÿùûòöôæìîïèëêçåàäâé) in one form or another.  Vietnamese also uses the French alphabet; they had no written language when French mercenaries - oops, I mean missionaries - arrived in the 18th (?) century and started writing things down.\n\nEastern Europe (Russian and some Slavic or ex-Yugoslavia languages) uses the Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek alphabet.  \n\nThe Cyrillic alphabet requires a special character set on your computer which should come with your OS disk.  The extended set for Western Europe is the default on most PCs and can be entered manually.  For example, hold down ALT and SHIFT and then type 129 on your keypad to get the "ü" character.
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simpleOCR 3.1 is free software for character recognition\n\nhttp://www.simpleocr.com/
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Are you looking for HTML ascii codes? Here: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm\n\nHere's DOS: http://telecom.tbi.net/asc-ibm.html
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search for ascii art and emoticons\n\n><((((º>\n\n~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº>\n\n«©¿©»\n\nthese are single line for chats. they also have mutiline for forums, email and web sites.
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Many people above said Japanese and Chinese. But this is usually true when Japanese and Chinese are written vertically. Horizontally, they are read from left to right. However, occasionally, like in artworks I've seen, it can be right to left even horizontally.\n\nOther scripts that are right-to-left are Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Divehi, Persian, Urdu, and others.
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Do it using the system set to english, then if you need a special character, go Insert > Special Character
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Hello....\n\nSmall 2 or 3 charcter 'pictures' are called emoticons (a combination of the words emotion and icon)  They are actually a small subset of a larger phenomenon called Ascii Art.\n\nBefore the days to dot matrix/inkjet/laser printers people used to make 'pictures' with characters overtyped on the paper.  This is called ascii art (ascii being  ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), generally pronounced [ˈæski], is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings—which support many more characters—have a historical basis in ASCII.                             http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii)\n\nMany examples are here:\n\nhttp://www.chris.com/ascii/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art
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Of course Chinese. Japanese have "stolen" a lot of characters from Chinese and developed two sets of symbols of their own  syllabic writing: hiragana and katakana, which symbols, strictly speaking, are not characters. But even if you add up hiragana and katakana symbols together with the characters that they are using, the number will still be much less than the number of characters used in Chinese.
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Although there are specialized keyboards, for the most part Japanese and Chinese just use regular keyboards that uses software to change keystrokes into thier respective languages - for example, typing "KA" on a Japanese system will result in the Japanese hiragana "ka", etc.
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I find that pasting from the character map doesn't work in all applications, including this one!\nHowever, holding down the alt key whilst typing numbers on the numeric keypad only will yield the following:\n1 to 66\n☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘○◙\n♂♀♪♫☼►◄↕‼¶\n§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔▲\n▼ !"#$%&'(\n)*+,-./012\n3456789:;<\n=>?@AB\n\n91 to 99\n[&#92;]^_`abc\n\n121 to 255\nyz{|}~⌂Çüé\nâäàåçêëèïî\nìÄÅÉæÆôöòû\nùÿÖÜ¢£¥₧ƒá\níóúñÑªº¿⌐¬\n½¼¡«»░▒▓│┤\n╡╢╖╕╣║╗╝╜╛\n┐└┴┬├─┼╞╟╚\n╔╩╦╠═╬╧╨╤╥\n╙╘╒╓╫╪┘┌█▄\n▌▐▀αßΓπΣσµ\nτΦΘΩδ∞φε∩≡\n±≥≤⌠⌡÷≈°∙·\n√ⁿ²■
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Chinese (Pinyin) and Japanese have syllabyls as well. Type in the alphabets of the cound and the words come out. You just have to choose each word from there. \n\nFor example, the sound "bao"in chinese can mean bun, run, hug, explode, thin etc...typing bao just gives you the options of choosing the word. Japanese is even easier as it can be written in alphabets...\n\nMore mind boggling is the fact that the same word in Chinese and Japanese can mean different things even though it is the same character!
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Use your favorite search engine and do a search for "ASCII art" and you will find allot you can download for free
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®\nuse ascii:\n\n\n<p>& # 1 7 4 ;</p>\nwithout the spaces
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well, it seems the umlaut (the one in this question) is working well. Maybe you don't have the appropriate Character encoding installed. \n\nTry View > Encoding > Unicode (any kind of unicode, try one by one, also known as UTF-x, with x being the charbit length length).
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other encoding languages?\nI doubt it. A file in binary does not make sense unless it has a context, otherwise its just a giant jumble of numbers. You need to open it with the program that created it, or with one that does a similar job to manipulate it in any way.\nASCII is just a 7-bit method of representing characters and numbers, and is used for text representation. All i can suggest is open it in notepad or another text editor and save it in a different encoding format
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Yes that is supported.  You have to change the default code page when you compile however or it wont work outside of your default language.\n\nThe option you want to use is -encoding UTF-8 \n\nThe default encoding used by Java runtime is Unicode UTF-16.  UTF-8 is the on disk encoding you usually want to use.  The default code page being used is usually a latin variant, not ASCII. This is a common misconception.  From the command line you can also use CHCP to find out what your default is.\n\nIn order to enter non localized chars into your editor you'll also need to change it's default code page and then use a IME (input method editor) to add  the non-english or french whatever you're defalt is text.
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Chinese - over 80,000 characters\nHawaiian - 13 Characters