Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 18:26:24 -0500 From: "Rob Wentworth" <rw@skypoint.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to type special characters? Message-ID: <002401c3135d$be979fc0$0d01a8c0@skynet> References: <BAY7-F92Bl8LgFuoe5c0000d842@hotmail.com> <20030504185207.GB854@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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Most laptops have a portion of the keyboard that can be used as a numeric keypad by pressing the Fn key and/or switching it to keypad mode. This allows typing special characters. In Windows I usually cut-and-paste characters from the "character map" utility so I don't have to remember the codes -- there must be a similar tool for FreeBSD... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Barner" <barner@in.tum.de> To: "How Can ThisBe" <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 1:52 PM Subject: Re: How to type special characters? Hi, > I am able to type non-standard characters like the euro symbol (?) by > holding down the ALT key and typing the relevent number (ie, 0128 for > the euro) on the keypad. My problem is I do not have a keypad on my > laptop and was wondering if there was an 'easy to use' alternative. For the Euro symbol, I can offer you this article here http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/euro/. Simon
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