From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 23:47:13 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 9095C106566C for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:47:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from asmtp2.iomartmail.com (asmtp2.iomartmail.com [62.128.201.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228428FC15 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asmtp2.iomartmail.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asmtp2.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2CNlAY4028362; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:47:10 GMT Received: from orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (80-45-152-196.static.dsl.as9105.com [80.45.152.196]) (authenticated bits=0) by asmtp2.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2CNl9IX028325; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:47:10 GMT Received: by orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AD50533C1F; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:47:09 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:47:09 +0000 From: Frank Shute To: Antonio Olivares Message-ID: <20110312234709.GC38813@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <20110312224336.ade79718.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="S1BNGpv0yoYahz37" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RC2 amd64 X-Organisation: 'shute.org.uk' Cc: Polytropon , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Character shortcuts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:47:13 -0000 --S1BNGpv0yoYahz37 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:57:31PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -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 (=F1) =A0[ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. > >> > >> http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp > >> > >> accents other symbols like copyright, euro, etc. =A0I 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. =A0I ev= en > >> tried to run a litte program in the shell to generate the characters > >> to use for cutting + pasting to no avial. > > [snip] >=20 > Thanks Frank & Polytropon for your input. I have students that bug me > with how to put the characters on their responses to their instructors > on the web pages via email. I tell them to open OpenOffice and insert > Special Character and then select the n with the tilde for the Spanish > work. But they wanted an easier way sort of the way BILL GATES OS has > it. And I told them I would ask so they could do it also in FreeBSD > and Linux land. One student told me that it mattered which ISO Header > were used? ISO 8*? but I told him you gotta be kidding me. There > has to be an easier way. The keyboards are standard US all using > English keyboards. It depends on how the webpage handles things. Just cutting and pasting will end up with indeterminate results because the way a webpage handles a Euro is different to how email handles a Euro (only iso8859-15 has a Euro character IIRC) which is different to how an xterm handles it... etc. >=20 > I know how to do it in \LaTeX{} or \TeX{}, > \~n, \' I don't suppose for a minute that all your students use LaTeX or you could just ask them to send an attached pdf. >=20 >=20 > but it does not matter for me, it is for them. They have to write to > their spanish instructors in dual enrollment credit. I tell them then > to open another page with the special letter and highlight them and > copy+paste them and they boo my answer :( Antonio, if they're writing to their Spanish instructors using a web to email gateway then their characters are likely to get mangled. If the gateway accepts attachments, then a pdf is the best bet: you know special characters wont get mangled. Tell your idle scum^H^H...students to learn LaTeX and a decent text editor ;) >=20 > Regards, >=20 >=20 > Antonio Regards, --=20 Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html --S1BNGpv0yoYahz37 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk18BfwACgkQHduKvUAgeK7P+QCgr5UYkJE4S4TGiwGGki+EZAYV NIAAoMRPfW2swmTuJpH6MN5Px15Qq26I =y+aG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --S1BNGpv0yoYahz37--