On Monday 12 April 2010 09:05:57 Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:43:30 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > > im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read power > > of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page, the power > > displays as a normal character 2. is this a dpkg-reconfigure locales > > issue? > > Web pages usually make use of CSS styles to render those types, so when > you copy/paste the content into a plain text document, the format gets > lost. That's a normal behaviour. > > > how can i gain the ability to type a power of 2? > > Besides the tip Cameron provided, I add another one (only for GNOME): > > - Press Control-R and then press Shift-R (keep those pressed at the same > time) > - Now press "u" and release the three keys (it will appear an underline > "u" in the screen) > - Then type "00b2" and press Enter > > That will render into "²" :-) > > There is a small list of secuences in this page: > > http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html > > And a full one: > > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/a.htm > > Greetings, >
With Kde, french kbrd, but us locales, ALT Gr + m or ù or * give me ¹ ² ³. So you may try all the keys holding down ALT Gr, and again Shit + ALT Gr, I discovered that I get a lot of letters and sign. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004121020.57483.tchate...@free.fr
