Try to type an em dash or a copyright symbol using the Alt+NumberPad keying and it will not work. On a European keyboard, you cannot type at all. This is fixed by using two items on the Edit menu. The two items are toggles locked together. If one is checked and you click the other, you will uncheck the one that was checked. One enables the typing of the 8-bit characters into the text. The other, for the ewriter, types in the html/xml escape codes. The em dash, for instance, is —. The .ini file wont remember that one of these was toggled on. You must do it on purpose each session. (Starting with 0.Cb this is remembered in ewriter.ini, along with The Changers setting.) 16-bit unicode is not handled at all. Windows 95/98 has the same widechar API as Windows NT. Unfortunately, it was never given life.
Hold Down the Control key
and press a Number Pad key. The Number Pad keys have Navigation Pad
key-names and eWriter uses the mnemonic value of these. The 7 key,
labeled Home, is for the root or html block. PgUp (9) and PgDn (3)
type the head and body blocks.