[Tex/LaTex] How to add acknowledgements on the title page as a numbered footnote

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I was asked to add acknowledgements to the right of the author name as the first footnote. (So the footnote should be numbered as "1" but for some reason it only shows asterisk "*".)

Could anyone help me? 

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,leqno,pdftex]{article}
\title{AAAAA}
\author{BBBBB\footnote{CCCCC} \\DDDDD University }
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
EEEEEE
\end{abstract}
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}

Best Answer

The standard classes locally redefine footnote internals to use symbols and different formatting, so that \thanks works (which is really just \footnote in disguise.

It would be possible to undo those redefinitions but just for a one off note I'd simply avoid the issue as follows:

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,leqno,pdftex]{article}
\title{AAAAA}

\author{BBBBB\textsuperscript{1}\\DDDDD University }
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
EEEEEE
\end{abstract}
\footnotetext[1]{CCC}
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}
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