From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 02:32:53 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 60EB5106564A for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 02:32:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E94B48FC0C for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 02:32:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so2409177fxm.13 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:32:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5JiBaKHtjzaJDtlcIjexTVJc2x40mUn8sZN26Dto0ao=; b=gNwi7FfwTDJCUeyEeRa4Se6IkBEr09HlxKs/6xgD/6Spl1mJ+oLFvA9zUfh9vdo8N0 NB4IQnCtQUhuPH8+cp0ol678NM9VmXx1GT3HEQk0KRdxF5QM2TqTrMvL9Ou/B6wl8LEH n5UBWGtmeL2Gga8XlBF3il8ndz0H5LxVfVx50= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QvC+rJz1B3Pl26QbqYF8B8AoxMrrZOcrdlQHD/q/JD7y21iEUjHcJRUBuMk9xwHx2c eBd7ZrWbjBleYnLxk7Z5nEnkA/Uc80wv4Q0vbSLw2CILUuYiJjtDOL+esT1hjH8WkEie oZd82pzMtKHJvKnfWx35u8q3nIXd6AFJtfITo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.64.201 with SMTP id f9mr1715561fai.102.1299983572061; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:32:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.74.133 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:32:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110312232449.GA91695@guilt.hydra> References: <20110312232449.GA91695@guilt.hydra> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:32:52 -0600 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Chad Perrin 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: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 02:32:53 -0000 Chad & all, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > 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 (=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 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: > > =A0 =A0entering special characters in Xorg > =A0 =A0http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=3D814 This looks like a good way of inputting the characters. I will give it a try and report back after Spring Break :) Thank you all for your input. All of your comments are well taken and appreciated. Regards, Antonio > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] >