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Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae"
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David Wright |
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Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae" |
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Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:42:57 -0600 |
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On Thu 25 Jan 2018 at 10:19:33 (+0100), Werner Arnhold wrote:
> On Linux there is in many environments as e.g. bash command line or vi a
> way to enter Unicode characters by hex number. You press
> <Ctrl>-<Shift>-u, then see a litte underlined "u", then enter hex
> number, followed by a blank. Then the character is displayed. So:
>
> <Ctrl>-<Shift>-ue6_ is æ
> <Ctrl>-<Shift>-ub0_ is °
> <Ctrl>-<Shift>-ua7_ is §
>
> where "_" means a blank.
Wow, that's a lot to remember.
Why not just use the Compose key in your X server? Set this in the
appropriate way for your distribution. In Debian one populates
/etc/default/keyboard with lines like:
XKBMODEL="latitude"
XKBLAYOUT="gb"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
BACKSPACE="guess"
Because I've never needed a [Caps Lock], I use that as my [Compose] key.
Then just press [Compose] a e to type æ.
And if you can't remember the combination, just guess.
Chances are, you'll be right. Thus:
[Compose] o e œ
[Compose] a " ä
[Compose] A " Ä
[Compose] o / ø
[Compose] o o °
[Compose] a ` à
[Compose] , c ç
[Compose] c c č
[Compose] - L £
[Compose] ^ 1 ¹
[Compose] ~ n ñ
[Compose] 1 2 ½
[Compose] < < «
Some of these may depend on what locale you're using; obviously
some languages will set the keyboard layout so as not to need
compose sequences for frequent characters.
> Am Mittwoch, den 24.01.2018, 16:50 -0600 schrieb Karlin High:
> > On 1/24/2018 4:26 PM, Son_V wrote:
> > > Today I use Windows and Frescobaldi 2.18
> >
> > Frescobaldi has menu options for special characters.
> >
> > Windows has the Character Map program, charmap.exe that allows selection
> > and copying special characters.
> >
> > That program will also display the alt-codes for some of them. These
> > allow typing special characters by holding down the ALT key and typing
> > numbers on the numeric keypad.
> >
> > ALT+0230 æ
> > ALT+0176 °
> > ALT+0167 §
> >
> > Pick your favorite method, any of them can do the job. And you can even
> > just copy and past the thing from here: æ
Cheers,
David.
- Character for plural Latin, "ae", Son_V, 2018/01/24
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", Karlin High, 2018/01/24
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", Son_V, 2018/01/24
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", Simon Albrecht, 2018/01/24
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", Karlin High, 2018/01/24
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", Werner Arnhold, 2018/01/25
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae",
David Wright <=
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", Wols Lists, 2018/01/25
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", Vaughan McAlley, 2018/01/25
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", David Kastrup, 2018/01/25
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", Karlin High, 2018/01/25
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", David Wright, 2018/01/25
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", Karlin High, 2018/01/25
- Re: Character for plural Latin, "ae", Karen Billings, 2018/01/25