Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> writes: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > I don't know what the state of the art on Mac is these days, but in > > 1984s Macs had a standard keyboard layout that let you enter most > > available characters via the keyboard, using sensible mnemonics. > > E.g. on a US keyboard layout, you could get ≠ by holding down the > > Option key and typing =. […]
> I don't think there's any left-arrow character available on the > keyboard though, unfortunately. I'm glad to live in an age when free-software “Input Methods” for many different character entry purposes are available in good operating systems. I switch between them using SCIM <URL:http://www.scim-im.org/>. At a pinch, when I'm without my GUI, I can turn some of them on with Emacs. Common input methods → joy. I usually default to the “rfc1345” input method which has many non-keyboard characters available via two-character mnemonics from the eponymous RFC document — which appears to be about the only purpose that document has any more. -- \ “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is | `\ able to think things out for himself, without regard to the | _o__) prevailing superstitions and taboos.” —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
