Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Cameron Hutchison
jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com writes: 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? how can i gain the ability to

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
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? how can i gain the ability to type a power of 2?

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 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? It could

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Camaleón
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

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Thierry Chatelet
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

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:20:57 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Monday 12 April 2010 09:05:57 Camaleón wrote: (...) 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

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-12 01:41, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 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

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:05:57 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: ... Besides the tip Cameron provided, I add another one (only for GNOME): Actually, this is a GTK+ method (based on ISO 14755), and it's what I use on my XFCE system. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:05:59 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:05:57 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... Besides the tip Cameron provided, I add another one (only for GNOME): Actually, this is a GTK+ method (based on ISO 14755), and it's what I use on my XFCE system.

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 12 April 2010 15:23:45 Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:05:59 -0400, Celejar wrote: Curious is that I can get ¹²³ by using the Shift+^+number method but that does not work for the rest of the numbers 4 5 6 7 8 9. When I press that combo (i.e., Shift+^+4), my system beeps and

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread jeremy jozwik
christ! lots of replies here! $ echo -e \xc2\xb9\xc2\xb2\xc2\xb3\xe2\x81\xb4\xe2\x81\xb5 ¹²³⁴⁵ so, that is copypasteable. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: - Press Control-R and then press Shift-R (keep those pressed at the same time) - Now press u and

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:47:07 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: (...) On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: - 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

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe you mistyped the sequence? ;-) nah, works in gedit. just not iceweasel. so, its obvious that i have ² . so why is it not showing up in the character map? thanks for all your suggestions. and camaleón, sorry for the

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:59:31 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:47:07 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: (...) On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: - Press Control-R and then press Shift-R (keep those pressed at the same time) - Now press u

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: He probably read your 'Control-R' as 'Control + R', which tells web browsers to reload, rather than 'right Control key'. yep. ²³±!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-11 Thread jeremy jozwik
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? how can i gain the ability to type a power of 2? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email