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From: jeremy jozwik on 11 Apr 2010 22:50 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 to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/y2yf8d5d4f31004111943je990e9a0h6ca9fedd1ffb1fa9(a)mail.gmail.com
From: Cameron Hutchison on 12 Apr 2010 02:40 jeremy jozwik <jerjoz.forums(a)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 type a power of 2? I can tell you how I do it - there may be other ways. I set up a "compose" key through the GNOME settings: System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layout Tab -> Layout Options button >From there you can set up a key to be the "compose" key in the "Compose Key position" section. I use "Caps Lock" since I do not use that key otherwise, but you can choose any of the keys available. Once you have a compose key defined you can enter the power of two character by typing: <compose> ^ 2 This is three separate key presses. You do not hold down the compose key. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/15ed.4bc2be5a.3bab1(a)getafix.xdna.net
From: Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă on 12 Apr 2010 03:00 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? > > Assuming you talk about this character: ², which is Unicode U+00b2, or SUPERSCRIPT TWO, just map your keyboard to do that for you. For example for assigning the combination AltGr-2 (AltGr is the right-Alt, if not marked as such): xmodmap -e "keycode 0x0B = 2 at 0x010000b2" To automate this add that line in your .xsession or .xinitrc. For many changes to the keyboard make your own .xmodmap file and add xmodmap .xmodmap in your .xsession or .xinitrc file. Best regards, Ionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BC2C307.8020600(a)tue.nl
From: Florian Kulzer on 12 Apr 2010 03:10 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 also be due to the browser not copying certain characters correctly to the clipboard. Let's start at the beginning, which output do you get from this command: locale If you use an utf8-based locale, e.g. "en_US.UTF-8", then the following command should print the numbers 1-5 in superscript: echo -e "\xc2\xb9\xc2\xb2\xc2\xb3\xe2\x81\xb4\xe2\x81\xb5" What do you get? > how can i gain the ability to type a power of 2? If the locale is set up correctly and your terminal supports the characters, then the easiest method is to define a compose key and use <compose key> + "^" + "2". (The "+" means pressing the keys in sequence, releasing each key before pressing the next one.) -- Regards, | Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100412064155.GA10495(a)bavaria.univ-lyon1.fr
From: Ron Johnson on 12 Apr 2010 08:40
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 >> dpkg-reconfigure locales issue? > > It could also be due to the browser not copying certain characters > correctly to the clipboard. > > Let's start at the beginning, which output do you get from this command: > > locale > > If you use an utf8-based locale, e.g. "en_US.UTF-8", then the following > command should print the numbers 1-5 in superscript: > > echo -e "\xc2\xb9\xc2\xb2\xc2\xb3\xe2\x81\xb4\xe2\x81\xb5" > > What do you get? In xfce terminal, it works perfectly. In urxvt (with font fixed-medium), the ^4 is weird looking, but pasting it into Iceweasel makes it look correct. ~$ echo -e "\xc2\xb9\xc2\xb2\xc2\xb3\xe2\x81\xb4\xe2\x81\xb5" ¹²³⁴⁵ $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BC313DD.9000606(a)cox.net |