chris z Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 (edited) is there a way to make various symbols (like a degree sign, cents sign, accents over letters, etc.) using keyboard combinations in Linux? like (for example), in Window$, if you hold down the alt button & type 176 you can make a degree symbol. also, Window$ has the character map that shows you all the keyboard combos for symbols & funky letters, or you can just copy & paste from it. using MDK9.1 & KDE, if that matters. i'll continue poking around whilst waiting for a reply....... thanks, Chris Edited November 8, 2003 by chris z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 Maybe this could help... GNOME Character Map 2.2.0.3 part of gnome-utils Version: 2.2.0.3-1mdk (mdk9.1) Description: Select, copy and paste characters from your font into other applications The Character Map application enables you to select characters from a character table, then combine the characters into a text string with standard characters. You can insert the text string that you create into applications such as text editor documents. Character Map works primarily with the ISO-8859-1 Latin 1 character set. The application also provides options to work with some non-Latin character sets, such as Cryllic. The application provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the characters are not available on a standard keyboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 (edited) As James suggests, you can use the character map, which in KDE and Gnome you can find under Applications/Text Tools. You can also use the <alt gr> keys for some characters. I can't remember where I found the information, but on my UK keyboard, I can use the following (amongst others) - Diaeresis (umlaut) ä/Ä <alt gr>[ a/A ö/Ö <alt gr>[ o/O ü/Ü <alt gr>[ u/U Acute á/Á <alt gr>; a/A é/É <alt gr>; e/E ú/Ú <alt gr>; u/U Circumflex â/Â <alt gr>' a/A ê/Ê <alt gr>' e/E Grave à/À <alt gr># a/A è/È <alt gr>' e/E Cedilla ç/Ç <alt gr>; c/C Double s ß <alt gr>s Hope this helps. :) Edited November 8, 2003 by spinynorman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted November 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 thanks guys.... since i posted that, i woke up a bit more & found the charachter map in KDE. (if i'd just open my eyes sometimes.......... :unsure: ) Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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