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 (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. > > http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp > > accents other symbols like copyright, euro, etc. I 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. I even > tried to run a litte program in the shell to generate the characters > to use for cutting + pasting to no avial. > > But the characters after 127 are not printable :( using the pr-ascii script > from > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/wrapper.html > > u + 00F1 is the ñ,but I don't know which key combination gives the > same results as above. A script/program(C,C++) that would generate > the characters would be nice, but if there is a key combination that > could be used to generate the special letters. > > Thanks in Advance, > > Antonio
You can get those characters (digraphs) using vim. :help dig in (g)vim. E.g Ctl-k n ~ ñ Ctl-k C o © There's a note about using the Euro sign in the vim helpfile. (Depends on the encoding of the font you're using.) You could also make macros for these digraphs in vim. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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