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| 16 Jun 2012 06:35 PM |
| I believe I've asked this before, but I don't remember what anybody said. Anyway, to type a unicode character in Windows, you type Alt, the + key, and then the code. However, pressing Alt-E or Alt-F in Chrome opens the wrench menu, disabling me from typing any characters with E or F in them; and doing alt-D selects the URL bar, so the rest of the code ends up in the URL bar. How do I prevent this? |
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um3k
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| 16 Jun 2012 06:41 PM |
ΦÑå÷╙╬qá$H╛╪
Holding Alt and typing the number works fine for me. I never heard of the method you're talking about. |
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| 16 Jun 2012 06:46 PM |
| I am talking about Unicode characters, not alt codes. |
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stravant
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| 16 Jun 2012 08:07 PM |
I can't even do normal Alt-Codes on my machine, some of the Alt+NumPad keys are also taken for other things.
I've tried to find some discussion about it online in the past, but I've been unable to. |
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| 16 Jun 2012 09:10 PM |
| Depending on the codes you're trying to do, just set up Windows to use the International Keyboard layout. Accented characters like é, á, ú, etc., become a result of pressing ' and then the character that you want accented. This also works with " to make characters like ë or ü. A backtick makes characters like è, and ^ makes characters î or û. There are more Unicode characters given by holding alt, but for example, Alt+e makes é, which can be formed in the way I stated before. |
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| 16 Jun 2012 09:24 PM |
"Depending on the codes you're trying to do, just set up Windows to use the International Keyboard layout."
Unfortunately this is not a solution, usually I'm using it for symbols like plus-minus and squared. |
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| 16 Jun 2012 09:32 PM |
| Got to love Fedora and its awesome accessibility features, hehe. Oyus. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 04:16 AM |
| @OP: You can type it with just the numpad, can't you? Pretty sure that you don't have to use the hexadecimal version. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 04:45 AM |
@NXT,
Some keyboards don't have the numpad. |
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| 17 Jun 2012 11:06 AM |
"Unfortunately this is not a solution, usually I'm using it for symbols like plus-minus and squared."
Well, I know the Windows International layout has the squared symbol as Alt+2 (not 2 on the numpad), ². It doesn't have plus-minus to my knowledge, though, and I don't know if it's the same on the International layout on other operating systems (I believe it is on Ubuntu, but feel free to correct me. I don't use it enough to remember its international layout completely). |
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| 17 Jun 2012 11:09 AM |
> You can type it with just the numpad, can't you?
No, you can't. You have to use the normal pad. |
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