Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:57:31 -0600 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Character shortcuts Message-ID: <AANLkTi=MB9Qb12mSseUADMz4eMObFqBFJGPvo9NVwjxi@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110312224336.ade79718.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <AANLkTimEHuVq_menbHAQkw09%2Bf7bAHMR=Xn-Y6gnzuFi@mail.gmail.com> <20110312224336.ade79718.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail= .com> 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 (=C3=B1) =C2=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. =C2=A0I would like to d= o >> the same(have a special key combination) to get the characters in >> FreeBSD too, but googling have not found something that works. =C2=A0I e= ven >> tried to run a litte program in the shell to generate the characters >> to use for cutting + pasting to no avial. > > Depending on your keyboard and language settings, many > characters can be generated by Alt+Letter. There is also > a COMPOSE key on some keyboards - and those that don't > have it can be told to do so by xmodmap. Using the > COMPOSE approach, you combine a letter with an accent > or any other symbol, and if there is a matching result > in your character set (or font), it will be displayed. > > Here are some examples: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Compose a a -> =C3=A5 (svedish a-circle) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Compose s s -> =C3=9F (german Eszett ligature) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Compose U " -> =C3=9C (german U Umlaut, capita= l) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Compose L / -> =C5=81 (polish L-stroke, capita= l) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Compose a , -> =C4=85 (polish a-comma) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Compose o / -> =C3=B8 (danish o-stroke) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Compose k k -> =C4=B8 (greek kappa) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Compose n ' -> =C5=84 (n with accent grave) > > And of course: Compose n ~ -> =C3=B1. > > Depending on how characters like `, =C2=B4, ^ or ~ are handled > (single character immediately output, or combination > character that waits for the next letter to automatically > construct a new one), Compose may be needed or not. On the > default german keyboard setting, 'e gives =C3=A9, ~n gives =C3=B1 > and ^a gives =C3=A2 immediately without using Compose. > > My ~/.xmodmaprc contains (along with other lines): > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0add mod4 =3D Multi_key > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0keycode 117 =3D Multi_key > > You can find out the keycodes using the "xev" program. > > Your keyboard settings maybe sets other characters than > can be created with Alt+letter or AltGr+letter (the > german keyboard's right Alt key is labeled AltGr, or > Alt Graph on my Sun keyboard), e. g. =C2=AC=C2=B9=C2=B2=C2=B3=C2=BC=C2=BD= =C2=AC{[]}\ > @=C5=82=E2=82=AC=C2=B6=C5=A7=E2=86=90=E2=86=93=E2=86=92=C3=B8=C3=BE=C3=BE= =C2=A8 =C3=A6=C3=9F=C3=B0=C4=91=C5=8B=C4=A7j=C4=B8=C5=82=CB=9D^ =C2=AB=C2= =BB=C2=A2=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9Dn=C2=B5=C2=B7, and with Shift > =C2=AC=C2=A1=E2=85=9B=C2=A3=C2=A4=E2=85=9C=E2=85=9D=E2=85=9E=E2=84=A2=C2= =B1=C2=B0=C2=BF=C2=BF=CB=9B =CE=A9=C5=81=E2=82=AC=C2=AE=C5=A6=C2=A5=E2=86= =91=C4=B1=C3=98=C3=9E=CB=9A =C3=86=C2=A7=C3=90=C2=AA=C5=8A=C4=A6J&=C5=81=CB= =9D=CB=87 =C2=A6<>=C2=A9=E2=80=98=E2=80=99N=C2=BA=C3=97=C3=B7. > > So instead of memorizing arbitrary numbers as in MICROS~1 > land, you can see a relation between the letter and the > key you need to press in order to generate it. You can > also rearrange them if you feel a need for that. :-) > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... 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. I know how to do it in \LaTeX{} or \TeX{}, \~n, \' 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 :( Regards, Antonio
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