How do I write ASCII code on my HP G56-130SA notebook which has no numpad?

[andvalinminster]

Regret to say that what you are suggesting is not possible with a laptop without numpad. In any case there is a far easier way of achieving what you are suggesting by using the charmap command which gives you all ascii characters and you copy from the table given any character you wish to use. I have found that this is, so far, the most direct/elegant way of writing ascii code.

Many thanks for your interest to help.

[andvalinminster]

Thank you John for your succinct statement.

[JohnR1948]

I like the charmap approach in that it has a certain amount of elegance, as we would say in math.

I called HP today and got shuffled between a number of people, most of who could not understand the issue. One finally looked at a laptop and saw the alternative keypad activated by the function key.

The bottom line is that the only direct way to solve this problem is to use a USB-connected keypad.

[andvalinminster]

Many thanks for your continued interest in the matter John. However, the addition of extra hardware changes the basic question, in my view, which seeks to find a solution within the confines of the original machine. Admittedly the question could have been more accurately stated by excluding additional HW.

[Tboneman]

This solution isn't satisfactory at all. I work for a Danish company and need extended characters all the time. Using the character map is unwieldy and slow. You need to supply a keyboard driver for the HP Split x2 that uses the fn key to turn JKLUIO789 etc into a keypad.