On Friday 05 March 2010 09:56:13 Bill Hooper wrote: > I recently discovered an easier and better way to type a degrees symbol on > the computer. Maybe some (all?) of you already knew this but I didn't. > > I had been using the combination > <option-shift-8> > (that is, <option-*>, since <shift-8> is the asterisk). I recently learned > that I can use <option-k> > (note, it's not <option-K>, with a capital K, which is something else > interesting but not the degree symbol). > > Note that the option key may be labelled "alt" or "alternate" on other > computers.
What operating system? What desktop environment? I tried that, using the left Alt key and the left shift key, and got a huge list of the files in my home directory. I typed it into jbopy, a Python program; typing it into my mail window has no effect. In KDE the way I type a degree symbol is to hold the right-Alt key (which is the compose key) down and hit 'o' twice. 7 °C. This of course requires setting something to be the compose key. Pierre -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa
