TROY Group Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 401 series Font Card Kit User’s Guide User Manual

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Section 2

Using TROY Fonts

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Hexadecimal Number

Character or Symbol

ASCII Number

Determining a
Character
Mapping

Accessing
Unmapped
Characters

To determine which key on your computer keyboard that a TROY character or symbol is “mapped” to, simply
compare the ASCII number of the selected TROY character or symbol to the same ASCII number listed in the
Standard ASCII Character Map (shown on the next page) to determine which keyboard key can be used to
access the selected TROY character or symbol.

Some of the font sets provided on the Are found here

http://www.troygroup.com/support

contain more characters or symbols

than can be “mapped” to the available keys on a standard computer
keyboard. In this case, these characters can be accessed by manually
entering the ASCII number (see example at right) designated for each
character (refer to the character tables on the following pages). The
hexadecimal number shown below the ASCII number is used for
programming mainframe computers.

To access a character or symbol that is not “mapped” to one of the keys on your Windows computer keyboard,
you can manually enter the ASCII number by holding down the

ALT

key on your keyboard, entering the associated

ASCII number for the character you wish to access, and then releasing the

ALT

key.

NOTE: You must use the numerical keypad on your keyboard to enter the ASCII number. The number keys along
the top of the keyboard will not work for this application.