On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:57:31PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600, Antonio Olivares > > <[email protected]> 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. > > [snip] > > Thanks Frank & Polytropon for your input. I have students that bug me > with how to put the characters on their responses to their instructors > on the web pages via email. I tell them to open OpenOffice and insert > Special Character and then select the n with the tilde for the Spanish > work. But they wanted an easier way sort of the way BILL GATES OS has > it. And I told them I would ask so they could do it also in FreeBSD > and Linux land. One student told me that it mattered which ISO Header > were used? ISO 8*? but I told him you gotta be kidding me. There > has to be an easier way. The keyboards are standard US all using > English keyboards.
It depends on how the webpage handles things. Just cutting and pasting
will end up with indeterminate results because the way a webpage
handles a Euro is different to how email handles a Euro (only
iso8859-15 has a Euro character IIRC) which is different to how an xterm
handles it... etc.
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> I know how to do it in \LaTeX{} or \TeX{},
> \~n, \'
I don't suppose for a minute that all your students use LaTeX or you
could just ask them to send an attached pdf.
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>
> but it does not matter for me, it is for them. They have to write to
> their spanish instructors in dual enrollment credit. I tell them then
> to open another page with the special letter and highlight them and
> copy+paste them and they boo my answer :(
Antonio, if they're writing to their Spanish instructors using a
web to email gateway then their characters are likely to get mangled.
If the gateway accepts attachments, then a pdf is the best bet: you
know special characters wont get mangled.
Tell your idle scum^H^H...students to learn LaTeX and a decent text
editor ;)
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> Regards,
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>
> Antonio
Regards,
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Frank
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