Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:32:52 -0600 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Subject: Re: Character shortcuts Message-ID: <AANLkTinoeQO2Ajj_3DG9GRO61Msuus9h6qQieXqaVm_A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110312232449.GA91695@guilt.hydra> References: <AANLkTimEHuVq_menbHAQkw09%2Bf7bAHMR=Xn-Y6gnzuFi@mail.gmail.com> <20110312232449.GA91695@guilt.hydra>
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Chad & all, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> 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 ] >
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