Re: phonetic alphabet on OpenBSD
Slightly off topic, but: http://www.phonelosers.org/2017/12/confusing-phonetic-alphabet/ All the best, Murk On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 11:29 PM Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2018-10-14, Jan Stary wrote: > > > Are there any phoneticians running on OpenBSD? > > I still haven't read Ladefoged yet, but I use IPA somewhat regularly. > > > How do you type the phonetic alphabet in vim? > > Is there a standard keyboard layout for the English part of IPA? > > I don't use vim, but the sad answer is that I copy and paste, > principally from Wikipedia's IPA page. If you're only dealing with > English, the Help:IPA/English page is more convenient. > > In general, I use the X11 compose key to enter special characters. > See /usr/X11R6/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose for the available > combinations. That's sufficient for entering the letters and > diacritics used in all European languages that use the Latin alphabet. > However, it does not cover IPA. > > Vim comes with its own "digraph" system, which uses the RFC1345 > digraphs by default. They cover a wide range, including Greek and > Cyrillic, but alas, there's another big hole in the Unicode range > where the IPA block (U+0250..02AF) is. > > > but I am looking for a "standard" way. > > I suspect people use an on-screen keyboard / character picker. > > In fact, googling for immediately finds a > bunch of web-based ones. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de > >
Re: phonetic alphabet on OpenBSD
Christian Weisgerber writes: > On 2018-10-14, Jan Stary wrote: > > How do you type the phonetic alphabet in vim? > > Is there a standard keyboard layout for the English part of IPA? > > I don't use vim, but the sad answer is that I copy and paste, > principally from Wikipedia's IPA page. If you're only dealing with > English, the Help:IPA/English page is more convenient. > > In general, I use the X11 compose key to enter special characters. > See /usr/X11R6/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose for the available > combinations. That's sufficient for entering the letters and > diacritics used in all European languages that use the Latin alphabet. > However, it does not cover IPA. Moving further away from Jan's request for a "standard way", compose key sequences can be custom-defined in ~/.XCompose (see Compose(5)). I find having my own compose sequences very useful for math and Unicode in general (faster to type and easier to remember than TeX/HTML escapes) but not a replacement for things like Japanese that really require an IME or dedicated keyboard layout. Not sure where IPA would fall in that spectrum but copying and pasting is so painful that custom compose sequences must be more convenient than that. -- Anthony J. Bentley
Need help installing 6.3 to Acer Aspire with eMMC drive; sdmmc troubles
Hello, I am new to OpenBSD, installing for the first time to an Acer Aspire ES1-111M. The only internal drive it has is a 32GB eMMC card. I have used dd to get install63.fs on a usb drive, and it boots fine. However, the installer reports sd0 as 1024M, so naturally the partition table it devises is no good. When I check dmesg (which I have no way to save as I am in the install medium?) I see the messages: sdmmc0: can't re-read EXT_CSD sdmmc0: mem init failed scsibus0 at sdmmc0: 2 targets, initiator 0 scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct removable sd0: 1024MB, 512 bytes/sector, 2097152 sectors I am booting in UEFI mode, but the results were the same when I used my BIOS' "Legacy" mode. disklabel also returns the same size, but when I run fdisk on /dev/sd0c it says it can't read sector 0. What should I do? Thanks, Nathan
Re: phonetic alphabet on OpenBSD
On 2018-10-14, Jan Stary wrote: > Are there any phoneticians running on OpenBSD? I still haven't read Ladefoged yet, but I use IPA somewhat regularly. > How do you type the phonetic alphabet in vim? > Is there a standard keyboard layout for the English part of IPA? I don't use vim, but the sad answer is that I copy and paste, principally from Wikipedia's IPA page. If you're only dealing with English, the Help:IPA/English page is more convenient. In general, I use the X11 compose key to enter special characters. See /usr/X11R6/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose for the available combinations. That's sufficient for entering the letters and diacritics used in all European languages that use the Latin alphabet. However, it does not cover IPA. Vim comes with its own "digraph" system, which uses the RFC1345 digraphs by default. They cover a wide range, including Greek and Cyrillic, but alas, there's another big hole in the Unicode range where the IPA block (U+0250..02AF) is. > but I am looking for a "standard" way. I suspect people use an on-screen keyboard / character picker. In fact, googling for immediately finds a bunch of web-based ones. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
phonetic alphabet on OpenBSD
Are there any phoneticians running on OpenBSD? How do you type the phonetic alphabet in vim? Is there a standard keyboard layout for the English part of IPA? I wrote me an ipa.vim ftplugin with shortcuts (such as imap ,ae) for the unicode chars, but I am looking for a "standard" way. Thank you Jan
USB 801.11 wireless adapters recommendation
Hi guys, I was reading [1] and set out to research to buy a wlan module for my old laptop that is running OpenBSD 6.3/AMD64. The current wlan module's chipset is unsupported and the BIOS have a whitelist for the allowed modules that can be inserted in the hardware. I want to buy a USB wireless 802.11b/g/n adapter with a supported chipset, do you have any recommendations for one? If so please share the link (better if it is amazon.com but I can use ebay.com too). note: doesn't have to be only a chipset supported by athn, all others in [2] I'm willing to try them too but I want to get a solid experience with the device. Thanks for reading. 1. https://man.openbsd.org/athn 2. https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless
Re: ddb(4) and usb keyboards
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 12:53:53AM -0500, Colton Lewis wrote: [...] > I wish to use the kernel debugger, but triggering it from the system > console causes the computer to stop responding to all keyboard input > and my only way out is a hard reset. I have tried every USB hub on my > system with the same result. I do not currently own another keyboard > to try. Adding the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf should allow you to use a USB keyboard in ddb(4): machdep.forceukbd=1
