1. ctrl+shift (keep depressed) then hit u
2. you will see a
- u
(underlined)
3. Now type in +23c
and voila! ȼ appears!
For the copyright symbol:
ctrl+shift(keep depressed)
u+a9
©
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Hmmm, no mention of which OS this works in. Didn’t work on my openSUSE box, maybe I’m not doing my mouth right or something.
I find an easier way to do this is to designate one of the least used keys on your keyboard into a ‘compose’ key. I prefer using ‘CAPS LOCK’ for this purpose. I get the additional characters without losing anything! Be honest, how often do YOU use that key? Unless you’re an AOL’er or are screaming at someone, you don’t use all CAPS. Even for typing a few words, you just hold a shift key down with a finger and type away. (This of course assumes you can type, however marginally!)
Setting up your CAPSLOCK to be a COMPOSE key is relatively simple nowadays. If you’re using a system with Gnome, it should be in the System > Preferences -> Keyboard or thereabouts. Poke around a bit, look for anything mentioning ‘layout’. Those using KDE will generally find it in their ‘Configure Desktop’ app, again under keyboard or keyboard shortcuts. ditto with the ‘layout’ bit.
Once you have this wonderful key at your disposal, you can do things like this (€) easily. Press ‘COMPOSE’ (your used-to-be CAPSLOCK), then ‘e’, then ‘=’… voila! €€€€¥€€¥
I’ll use a little shorthand here, (C) stands for compose, then the two characters you press to get the desired result. Got it?
Euro = € = (C)e=
Yen = ¥ = (C)y=
Cents = ¢ = (C)c/
Spanish Question Mark = ¿ = (C)??
Spanish Exclamation Mark = ¡ = (C)!!
Copyright = © = (C)co
Registered = ® = (C)RO (note, this required capital keystrokes)
Cool double angles = « = (C)<>
Degree indicator = ° = (C)oo
Plus or minus = ± = (C)+- or (C)-+
English Pound Sterling = £ = (C)l=
Sharp Indicator = ♯ = (C)##
There’s quite likely many more, Google is your friend.
Take Care,
Loni
Oh lookie!
Seems like I need to learn the markup for WordPress. I gather from the above incorrent entry for ‘Cool Double Angles’, that WordPress uses double as markers.
The double angles are (C) < >, not the () as it shows above. My apologies.
Loni
Arrrgh! It did it again!
Lets see it mangle text!!
Double left angles is (COMPOSE) LESS-THAN LESS-THAN.
Double right angles is (COMPOSE) GREATER-THAN GREATER-THAN
Stupid computer!
Nyeah!
Loni
And then for our friends who don’t use KDE or Gnome, you have a solution too. (Actually, these two will work on any X-windows system)
Firstly, you can edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, look for the Keyboard section, and add this line:
Option “XkbOptions” “compose:rwin”
This will turn the RIGHT Windows key on your keyboard into a compose key. I use the Windows keys as meta keys (like shift, ctrl and alt) to give me another level of hotkeys, so I don’t reassign them. I use caps-lock…
Option “XkbOptions” “compose:capslock”
Of course, after editing xorg.conf, you’ll need to restart X-windows to see this working. (Or reboot… {shudder})
-OR-
There is a method available which changes the keymapping on the fly: xmodmap
xmodmap remove Lock = Caps_Lock
xmodmap keycode 66 = Multi_key
Be wary, they ARE case-sensitive.
Those two commands remove the definition for Caps_Lock from the caps-lock key, and then redefine the caps-lock key to send ‘Multi_key’, which is the compose key.
This can be placed into your home directory in a file named .Xmodmap
Many systems will source the .Xmodmap file automatically when you log in, others don’t. I don’t know for sure which do or don’t offhand. Again, use this as a starting point, and go forth and learn. Remember, Google is your friend.
As an aside, xmodmap is somewhat of a black art, and I claim no mastery of it as of yet. This has (and does) work for me. Hopefully, it’ll work for you too. (KDE & Gnome have made it simpler to implement though)
Take Care,
Loni