Back in Tahr Puppy 64 6.0.5, you could get an acute-accented e, by typing "Alt Gr ;" (which generated nothing on screen), and then "e", which generated the accented e glyph.
Various other keys near the semicolon switched on other accents and ornaments, in the same way. If I remember correctly, this behaviour has been around for a long time, in editions of Puppy since 2013.
This doesn't seem to be implemented in Xenial Puppy 64, so I wondered if there was a new way of getting accented characters, and things like the degree symbol.
Not urgent, as cut and paste can do the same thing; it's more curiosity. Is it a kernel feature?
On the whole, Xenial Puppy 64 is a brilliant update to Tahr Puppy 64, and I'm enjoying it.
Typing special characters in 64 bit Xenial Puppy (SOLVED)
Typing special characters in 64 bit Xenial Puppy (SOLVED)
Last edited by Bushbuck on Sat 07 Jul 2018, 16:06, edited 1 time in total.
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@ BushBuck:-
Have a look here.
It's a how-to I put together after discovering that a standard keyboard will generate far more characters than are printed on the keys!
These are Unicode characters; you need to hold down Shift+Control, type a 'u' followed by the particular 4-digit code you need for the character required. Then just release everything, and the character should show.
Rather than the first site I linked to, you may find the second one that drunkjedi linked to on page 2 is easier to use. Each character will give you the necessary 4-digit code if you simply hover over it.
I don't use them often, but I keep a small list of those I do want, together with their Unicode 'value'.
Hope that helps!
(EDIT:- There's also the Xkb Configuration Manager, which will give you different keyboard layouts, switchable via a shortcut key combo (great for characters with accents).....but I'm hanged if I can find the thread for it.)
I've got the .pet package if you're interested:- http://www.mediafire.com/file/vvoc8oy2n ... 0.pet/file
It's 32-bit, but will work in 64-bit Pups with the 32-bit_compat_libs SFS loaded. Xenial64 doesn't have its own SFS for this, but it appears that Tahr64's version will work fine with Xenial64.
Mike.
Have a look here.
It's a how-to I put together after discovering that a standard keyboard will generate far more characters than are printed on the keys!
These are Unicode characters; you need to hold down Shift+Control, type a 'u' followed by the particular 4-digit code you need for the character required. Then just release everything, and the character should show.
Rather than the first site I linked to, you may find the second one that drunkjedi linked to on page 2 is easier to use. Each character will give you the necessary 4-digit code if you simply hover over it.
I don't use them often, but I keep a small list of those I do want, together with their Unicode 'value'.
Hope that helps!
(EDIT:- There's also the Xkb Configuration Manager, which will give you different keyboard layouts, switchable via a shortcut key combo (great for characters with accents).....but I'm hanged if I can find the thread for it.)
I've got the .pet package if you're interested:- http://www.mediafire.com/file/vvoc8oy2n ... 0.pet/file
It's 32-bit, but will work in 64-bit Pups with the 32-bit_compat_libs SFS loaded. Xenial64 doesn't have its own SFS for this, but it appears that Tahr64's version will work fine with Xenial64.
Mike.
