I have the Evanescence font, and there are some characters that can only be made with keys that I don't seem to have. There's a capital E with a circular design around it, and to make it you need that French c with the thingy under it - sorry, but it's been a while since my last French class. How do I get that without changing over my whole keyboard?
And also, there are certain fonts that have boxes where some of the letters are supposed to go. On my computer - I think it was there when I got it, but I can't remember - there's a font, University Roman Alts LET, and it has these boxes. I don't understand, it's not like it's a foreign alphabet or anything. Why would the font be available in the first place if you can't use it?
Thank you!

(Windows Instructions):

Download this file, named 'ANSI document':

http://www.4shared.com/document/LY95tDkt/ANSI_Document_.htm

It will show you which character glyphs can be made with the combination of the Alt key and the number pad. The document is set up for Bookman Old Style font. For use in another font, do Edit -> Select All, and change the font in use.

You can also use the Character Map:

Start Menu -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map, or you can make a desktop shortcut, (Right-Click the desktop -> New -> Shortcut. The path should be C:/Windows/System 32/charmap.exe

As with the ANSI document, the available supplementary glyphs will vary from font to font. Glyphs which appear in Tahoma can be used in Windows file names.

No doubt there are other ways to access these additional glyphs in graphics programs, but a combination of the ANSI document and the Character Map will increase the number of glyphs you can use in MS Word, Notepad, Excel, MS Paint, etc.

Thanks, I'll have to experiment with that, because I don't understand a word of it right now. And mostly I use Photo Filtre, it probably works pretty much the same way as everything else?

selkie, which Windows version do you use?

On the character map here, you have a little grey number on each character.

If you are on Windows, press the ALT key and hold it down while you type this number.
For example, the ç is Alt+0231

Ooh, thanks! I have Windows 7. By the way, do you see what I mean by the boxes that are bothering me in the other font? There, they are taking the place of most of the actual letters. If I knew how to put an image in here I could show you. Does anyone have an answer for this?

The box appears when a font does not have a character glyph for the position in the chart. For example. there is no pilcrow, (paragraph marker, ¶), in the Evanescence font above. Rose Caps, http://www.dafont.com/rose-caps.font for example, has a character set of A-Z in capital letters, and no other glyphs. For every other keyboard stroke, you'll see a box.

AllChars 4 is your solution for all fonts that follow the standard ANSI code. For fonts with special characters replacing the standards math symbols and accented letters you do need to know the character map to know which key combination you need.
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/documentation/ansitable.html