On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 04:15:30PM -0800, Alex Kleider wrote:
> >py> 'Bogotá'.encode('utf-8')
>
> I'm interested in knowing how you were able to enter the above line
> (assuming you have a key board similar to mine.)
I'm running Linux, and I use the KDE or Gnome character selector,
depending on which computer I'm using. They give you a graphical window
showing a screenful of characters at a time, depending on which
application I'm using you can search for characters by name or property,
then copy them into the clipboard to paste them into another
application.
I can also use the "compose" key. My keyboard doesn't have an actual key
labelled compose, but my system is set to use the right-hand Windows key
(between Alt and the menu key) as the compose key. (Why the left-hand
Windows key isn't set to do the same thing is a mystery to me.) So if I
type:
<Compose> 'a
I get á.
The problem with the compose key is that it's not terribly intuitive.
Sure, a few of them are: <Compose> 1 2 gives ½ but how do I get π (pi)?
<Compose> p doesn't work.
--
Steven
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