From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 23:36:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 990151065670 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:36:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60C698FC19 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:36:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31951 invoked by uid 0); 12 Mar 2011 23:36:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 12 Mar 2011 23:36:18 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=CoiuxKi7n4Io9hkhdRt89xpREggBcM6nQMXyVDE6tJeBWSrfWadm+XNKNmmTvNKrts2ES2eNfmW/PAq/Q7AQQfYIQeJd1SR64wCbeMQrgE3GjPOL4oqpaCG5pmkpR6c1; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PyYM5-0006bJ-LT for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:36:18 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:24:49 -0700 Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:24:49 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20110312232449.GA91695@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Character shortcuts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:36:19 -0000 --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear FreeBSD experts, >=20 > 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 (=F1) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. >=20 > http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp >=20 > 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=3D814 --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk18AMEACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUWfwCg3lKLAAtN9taeaRuWPUAhLzR0 5RQAnjRsFK9MJaU8vJCwhNxrweqYijUQ =mcFe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0--