Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators

From	Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators
Date	2024-08-29 23:02 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<20240829230246.00001487@yahoo.com> (permalink)
References	(3 earlier) <vaob37$3l470$6@dont-email.me> <87a5gwb3dt.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <vaol4r$3qe8c$1@dont-email.me> <vaq3e4$10tb$1@dont-email.me> <87le0f9se2.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>

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On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:59:49 -0700
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
> > On 29.08.2024 04:07, Janis Papanagnou wrote:  
> >> On 29.08.2024 02:04, Keith Thompson wrote:  
> >>>
> >>> If there's an easy way to type non-ASCII characters like '·' that
> >>> works across different systems, including all the various terminal
> >>> emulators used on Windows and Linux (as well as MacOS, but I don't
> >>> happen to use it), I'd love to know about it.   
> >> 
> >> I don't think there can be a portable or consistent way to create
> >> that character. Incidentally (I just tried a few keys) I can get
> >> the '·' by typing "Alt GR" and ',' (on my DE keyboard). [...]  
> >
> > Keith, what does your keyboard produce when typing <Alt>-<7> ?
> >
> > On my US keyboard it produces the '·'. Don't know whether that
> > is reliable, though. (I don't think it is; e.g. my Thunderbird
> > doesn't expand any character when entering <Alt> combinations.)  
> 
> It produces the two-character sequence Escape 7.
> 

Which 7? The one on numeric pad produces • in quite a lot of contexts.
The character appears after release of Alt key.

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    Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-28 12:46 -0700
      Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-28 13:30 -0700
      Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-28 23:15 +0000
        Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-28 17:04 -0700
          Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-08-29 04:07 +0200
            Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-08-29 17:17 +0200
              Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-29 09:59 -0700
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-08-29 23:02 +0300
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-08-29 20:18 +0000
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-08-29 23:32 +0300
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-08-29 21:24 +0000
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-08-30 13:50 +0300
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-29 13:41 -0700
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-30 03:16 +0000
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-29 21:35 -0700
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          Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-08-29 12:51 +0200
    Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-28 23:13 +0000
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