Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.os.linux.misc > #19553

Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X

Show all headers | View raw

On 2017-03-14, Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

> On 03/13/2017 05:17 PM, Clark Smith wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:40:01 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>
>>> 	Look for a application called character selector in your
>>> Office menu or using your package manager.  On KDE it is KCharSelect and
>>> it looks like keytop with a "à" on it when moved to the task panel.
>>
>> 	Thanks for your suggestion. This is useful to find all sorts of
>> esoteric characters. However, how does it help me when it comes obtaining
>> such characters, under common X applications, by means of keystroke
>> sequences?
>
> 	There is a window for choosing character sets and to the right of it is 
> a second window listing quite a few bits of information as
> to the various representations of the chosen character.
>
> Character: à U+00E0
> Name: LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
> Annotations and Cross References
> Equivalents:
> a U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A ̀ U+0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT
> General Character Properties
> Block: Latin-1 Supplement
> Unicode category: Letter, Lowercase
> Various Useful Representations
> UTF-8: 0xC3 0xA0
> UTF-16: 0x00E0
> C octal escaped UTF-8: \303\240
> XML decimal entity: &#224;
>
> 	Maybe you can figure out what you need to enter
> from that window if you can locate a character selector
> appropriate to your particular need.

I don't need too many special characters, so I found a simple
solution that works for me.  I wrote a little program that built
a text file containing all the special characters that I might
need.  Now I can just call it up in a suitable text editor,
and copy and paste characters into the program I'm using.

For my modest needs, it works just fine.  Even if the program
I'm using doesn't provide a "paste" menu in the appropriate
spot, control-V usually does the trick.

(Yes, I'm an Old Fart.  How did you guess?)

-- 
/~\  cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs)
\ /  I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way.
 X   Top-posted messages will probably be ignored.  See RFC1855.
/ \  HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored.  Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!

Back to comp.os.linux.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-13 19:14 +0000
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2017-03-13 13:40 -0700
    Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-14 00:17 +0000
      Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2017-03-13 20:04 -0700
        Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2017-03-14 06:26 +0000
      Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2017-03-14 18:12 +0000
        Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-14 19:10 +0000
        Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2017-03-14 20:14 +0000
        Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2017-03-14 20:31 +0100
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X marrgol <marrgol@address.invalid> - 2017-03-13 21:57 +0100
    Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-14 00:26 +0000
      Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2017-03-14 01:46 +0100
    Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-14 00:56 +0000
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2017-03-13 23:44 +0100
    Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-14 00:23 +0000
      Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2017-03-14 01:44 +0100
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-14 00:27 +0000
  Re:Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Doug  Laidlaw  <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2017-03-14 23:28 +1100
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2017-03-14 13:55 +0000
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-14 22:07 +0100

csiph-web