Unusual punctuation in BGSs

[hbelkins]

If I had my pics from my New Jersey trip from March online, I could show you some "US 1 & 9" photos. Not "US 1 - 9" but with the ampersand.

[Ian]

I have a few photos of the US 1&9 signs (though the second photo shows an erroneous NJ 1&9 shield):

[Alps]

NJ used the ampersand from maybe the 70s into the early 90s. Evidence of this is in NJ Route 139, where the "3" was created out of the ampersand because this had been 1&9 Business. (Before the 70s, there was no combined shield, as evidenced by nonreflective BGS on the Skyway.) Then they went to the hyphen, probably to create a less cluttered shield. I was very surprised to see new ampersand shields out.

[hm insulators]

I saw button copy tildes around the San Diego area on Thursday (Spanish ñ).

I-210 has the tildes for La Canada (there's a tilde over the N but I don't know how to do that on the computer) Flintridge where it passes through that Los Angeles suburb.

[roadfro]

I-210 has the tildes for La Canada (there's a tilde over the N but I don't know how to do that on the computer) Flintridge where it passes through that Los Angeles suburb.

On a Windows computer: For "Ã'", use Alt+0209 (i.e.: hold the 'Alt' key while pressing the '0' '2' '0' '9' keys in sequence on the number pad). For "ñ", it's Alt+0241.

One can use the Character Map to find special characters; select one and it generally tells you in the lower corner if there's a keystroke sequence for that symbol. Newer versions of MS Word have a built-in character map under Insert which does a similar function.

[J N Winkler]

If the 437 codepage is enabled (should be the case by default if you are using an English-speaking edition of Windows), ñ = Alt+164 and Ã' = Alt+165.  (Roadfro's method uses the ANSI characterset, I think.)  But personally I use the UK International keyboard layout since that enables the AltGr (right-hand Alt) deadkey.  AltGr+~ followed by n or N respectively produces ñ and Ã'.