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Re: keyboard shortcut problems



-- Timothy Wall <email@hidden> is rumored to have mumbled on Mittwoch, 29. September 2004 22:41 Uhr -0400 regarding Re: keyboard shortcut problems:

Second, Alt is used in conjunction with the numeric keypad to enter
special symbols.  For example, Alt+0160 is the sticky space (which is
Option-Space on the Mac).  Here's a site listing some of the
symbols...

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html

Cool, I never knew that. I figured that was less common than the Apple usage (Mac accent input seems to be much more intuitive -- how many custom character octal codes do you remember?).

This is a bit off-topic, but Mac OS X uses the same trick for Unicode characters if you use the Unicode Hex Input keyboard layout: press the Option key and enter four hex digits to specify the hex code of any glyph. It's not exactly intuitive, but there are simply no keyboard layouts for each and every script supported by Unicode ...
--
Sebastian Hagedorn
Ehrenfeldgürtel 156, 50823 Köln, Germany
http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/


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 >Re: keyboard shortcut problems (From: Mike Maughmer <email@hidden>)
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