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> and you ought to be able to type this in directly as an
> ALT+.... sequence on your keypad.

Ought to, but can't.

Windows provides this functionality for ANSI and lower characters, 
characters like �, which you can type into any Windows app as ALT 0167.

But for anything higher than Unicode (e.g., the fi ligature, U+FB01) the 
only method that works in any app is to copy and paste from Character 
Map. And just because you can copy it, doesn't mean the app will 
recognize it when you paste. Notepad (at least in XP, I don't know about 
Vista) isn't Unicode aware. Try pasting an fi ligature into Notepad. All 
you get is a box.

FWIW, it's no more difficult to amass a series of characters on one line 
in Character Map, choose the one you want, copy, and paste into Frame 
than it is to do the same thing from Notepad (except that it works from 
Character Map, and it only works from Notepad if they're ANSI characters).

-- 
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com