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George Huxtable wrote:
> I can find my way to the character map, but then, when Paul tells me it can
> be found "among the Latin letters", I'm not sure exactly where he's
> referring to, and would welcome some closer guidance.

It crossed my mind to include better navigation directions, but
unfortunately I didn't. The long s is well hidden. Here's how I get to
it. In Windows XP, open Character Map. At the bottom, check the Advanced
View box. When you do that, a drop-down list to select Group By appears.
Select Unicode Subrange. A little window with a list of Unicode
subranges appears. Select Latin. Then, back in the main Character Map
window, find the long s after a set of variants on the Y and Z letters.

Since they're arranged in numeric order, you could also move the mouse
pointer over the characters, looking for hexadecimal 17F.

Note that the appearance varies depending on which Font you select at
the top of the Character Map window. For example, in Arial, long s
simply appears as a vertical line with a hook at the top. There's no
crossbar.

Incidentally, I never make any attempt to set Character Map to the same
font that my email program uses. When I copy a character and paste it
into a message, its font changes to match the other characters. That may
not be true for all software, however.

There doesn't seem to be a keyboard shortcut for long s. If one exists,
you'll see it on the status line at the bottom of Character Map. For
example, when I select the degree symbol it says "Keystroke: Alt+0176",
meaning, hold Alt while typing 0176 on the numeric keypad. But no such
shortcut for long s appears on my machine.

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