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