From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 20:31:10 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 BB4C4106564A for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:31:10 +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 51DC18FC18 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so2288101fxm.13 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:31:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mOBmdnl4Zyhl+2xav/2eJ4Rqkc+4GMBGf8R+gVP6H9c=; b=DUko/V83M915O20dWH1Q6tmDX+CymaqOCd7jnVtk5Y7Gis0T9cWXs3TNoz7LKOvRmT L81L3t7GqSJeDXY3NeAJPM9GUZ7Ypkr+UAc/AsZOmdxwC2c4l9cA4JpdSRYJvH9pClPO Pk/PY9YEM3UDPu/KJHelcJLeEWckeDGq3xhEQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=KV2J3rVi8ZX7lpGbiEHPhlJLEZIVyWnv8a9AoUmLcgTHe9oxVZjafg8Yz64p/jKP+W eVdt9RkrMcFdw7TX83ZnaLKcc85JzB3kSW8UC3+FHTs4deIJbMvMouRa49bOwTBQmjG6 8JRgBfnhPhbEE75arJgqzDrfmbnl8PS/VnofA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.86.200 with SMTP id t8mr8862941fal.26.1299960479095; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:07:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.74.133 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:07:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: 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 20:31:10 -0000 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) [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. But the characters after 127 are not printable :( using the pr-ascii script= from http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/wrapper.html u + 00F1 is the =F1,but I don't know which key combination gives the same results as above. A script/program(C,C++) that would generate the characters would be nice, but if there is a key combination that could be used to generate the special letters. Thanks in Advance, Antonio