[Novalug] Keyboard support for tilde ~ character
Jon LaBadie
novalugml@jgcomp.com
Tue Aug 25 21:43:12 EDT 2020
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 05:39:06PM -0400, Peter Larsen via Novalug wrote:
> Ohhh - a quick followup. Back in the DOS days ALT GR and the numeric
> keyboard could be used to enter ASCII codes and get the corresponding
> ASCII character typed out. It was a great way when your keyboard didn't
> have the specific character you wanted.
>
> With UNI-Code things changed and it took me forever to realize it'd just
> moved to another keyboard combination. CTRL-SHIFT-U followed by 4 digits
> gives you the character of that unicode. There's a ton of them - the
> tilde ~ is 007E. So worst case is that you have to type this instead of
> hitting the tilde character.
>
> In GNOME there's an app called Characters that gives you every character
> and their unicode - careful you may waste lots of hours if you go there.
>
Thanks for the pointer, I just "wasted 30 min"
On my Fedora 32 system the program is "gnome-characters".
Also, CTRL-SHIFT-U took 1-5 digits.
>
>
> On 8/25/20 4:52 PM, Edwin via Novalug wrote:
> > I have a Raspberry Pi and I'm having trouble finding a keyboard that
> > supports the ~ character. The first problem is that the keyboards that I
> > have don't have that character. Just get a new keyboard? I tried and that
> > one didn't have it either. Neither did the next one that I purchased.
> > Advertisements for keyboards neglect to say if they do or don't have that
> > character. Secondly, the various keyboards supported for the Raspberry Pi
> > are either too generic, are too expensive, or just don't map to what they
> > should be. I am faced with a list of dozens of possible configurations and
> > all of the ones that I tried don't work. Any ideas or suggestions?
> >
> > Edwin Wilder
> >
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> Peter Larsen
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