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Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help

From	Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject	Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Date	2025-01-25 11:06 +0000
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On 24 Jan 2025 20:16:52 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> 
> There is no such thing as "the" standard computer keyboard. The fact
> 

Special keyboards, which could be "daisy chained*" to the regular
keyboard, should be available but they are not.

Here is an image of the main wxMaxima window:

https://i.postimg.cc/vBpCTv6S/keyboards.png

Note on the left are a couple of panes that contain various math
characters (all Unicode).  By clicking on a character with the
mouse pointer (or with a complex keystroke shortcut) it will be
entered into the text area on the right.

But what about doing this with actual hardware?

I should be able to purchase small, specialized keyboards containing
these characters that could be plugged via USB into my main keyboard.
With this daisy chaining technique I could have all the Unicode
symbols that I require directly at my fingertips.  No more awkward
mouse entry would be necessary.

However, such specialized keyboards do not exist.  We are all stuck
with the common ordinary Qwerty keyboard hardware.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_chain_(electrical_engineering)

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Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-17 20:54 +0000
  Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 12:24 +0000
    Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-18 14:00 +0000
      Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 15:12 +0000
        Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 15:14 -0600
          Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 22:21 +0000
            Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 17:40 -0500
            Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 17:18 -0600
      Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 15:26 +0000
        Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-18 22:53 +0000
          Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-19 15:35 +0000
          Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-19 15:58 +0000
            Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-24 19:40 +0000
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-24 15:36 -0500
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-24 22:27 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-24 22:55 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-24 23:35 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-25 10:43 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-25 11:24 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-25 14:06 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-01-25 14:49 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-02-07 19:00 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-25 14:33 -0600
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-26 11:21 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-26 06:54 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-24 18:23 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-25 01:00 +0000
          Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-19 17:36 +0000
            Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-20 14:03 -0600
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-20 21:05 +0000
            Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-24 20:16 +0000
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-24 16:07 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-24 22:19 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-24 17:54 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-25 01:09 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-25 10:23 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-25 06:08 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-01-25 16:51 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-25 09:07 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-25 09:16 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-25 09:47 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-25 10:28 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-26 11:01 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-27 08:34 -0500
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-24 22:37 +0000
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-25 01:04 +0000
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-25 02:14 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-25 11:05 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-28 22:30 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-02-01 10:19 +0000
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-25 11:06 +0000
      Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 15:40 +0000
        Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-18 23:12 +0000
      Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-01-18 16:45 +0000
        Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 15:28 -0600
    Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 14:39 -0600

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