Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:24:49 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Character shortcuts Message-ID: <20110312232449.GA91695@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimEHuVq_menbHAQkw09%2Bf7bAHMR=Xn-Y6gnzuFi@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimEHuVq_menbHAQkw09%2Bf7bAHMR=Xn-Y6gnzuFi@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear FreeBSD experts, > > There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find > a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special > characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. > > http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp > > accents other symbols like copyright, euro, etc. I would like to do > the same(have a special key combination) to get the characters in > FreeBSD too, but googling have not found something that works. I even > tried to run a litte program in the shell to generate the characters > to use for cutting + pasting to no avial. I wrote this about setting up a Compose key a while back: entering special characters in Xorg http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814 -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk18AMEACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUWfwCg3lKLAAtN9taeaRuWPUAhLzR0 5RQAnjRsFK9MJaU8vJCwhNxrweqYijUQ =mcFe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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