[Bryn-gwlad] Special Characters (Was Re: Bryn-gwlad Digest, Vol 7, Issue 43)
Corbin O Cathasaigh
motley_crow at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 15 11:03:48 PST 2006
Ah but you can indeed type special characters on a Mac... you just need to know the method.
I copy-pasted the following after doing a Google search. I would like the original page but it had a Trojan virus on it. Thank you, Norton Antivirus!
(pasted text commences)
__PC method______Macintosh method
À {alt}{0192}_____{Option}{`}{Shift-a}
à {alt}{133}______{Option}{`}{a}
Á {alt}{0193}_____{Option}{e}{Shift-a}
á {alt}{160}______{Option}{e}{a}
 {alt}{0194}_____{Option}{i}{Shift-a}
â {alt}{131}______{Option}{i}{a}
Ä {alt}{0196}_____{Option}{u}{Shift-a}
ä {alt}{132}______{Option}{u}{a}
à {alt}{0195}_____{Option}{n}{Shift-a}
ã {alt}{0227}_____{Option}{n}{a}
Æ {alt}{146}______{Shift}{Option}{"}
æ {alt}{145}______{Option}{'}
Ç {alt}{128}______{Option}{Shift-c}
ç {alt}{135}______{Option}{c}
È {alt}{0200}_____{Option}{`}{Shift-e}
è {alt}{138}______{Option}{`}{e}
É {alt}{144}______{Option}{e}{Shift-e}
é {alt}{130}______{Option}{e}{e}
Ê {alt}{0202}_____{Option}{i}{Shift-e}
ê {alt}{136}______{Option}{i}{e}
Ë {alt}{0203}_____{Option}{u}{Shift-e}
ë {alt}{137}______{Option}{u}{e}
Ì {alt}{0204}_____{Option}{`}{Shift-i}
ì {alt}{141}______{Option}{`}{i}
Í {alt}{0205}_____{Option}{e}{Shift-i}
í {alt}{161}______{Option}{e}{i}
Î {alt}{0206}_____{Option}{i}{Shift-i}
î {alt}{140}______{Option}{i}{i}
Ï {alt}{0207}_____{Option}{u}{Shift-i}
ï {alt}{139}______{Option}{u}{i}
Ñ {alt}{165}______{Option}{n}{Shift-n}
ñ {alt}{164}______{Option}{n}{n}
Ò {alt}{0210}_____{Option}{`}{Shift-o}
ò {alt}{149}______{Option}{`}{o}
Ó {alt}{0211}_____{Option}{e}{Shift-o}
ó {alt}{162}______{Option}{e}{o}
Ô {alt}{0212}_____{Option}{i}{Shift-o}
ô {alt}{147}______{Option}{i}{o}
Ö {alt}{0214}_____{Option}{u}{Shift-o}
ö {alt}{148}______{Option}{u}{o}
Õ {alt}{0213}_____{Option}{n}{Shift-o}
õ {alt}{0245}_____{Option}{n}{o}
Ø {alt}{0216}_____{Shift}{Option}{o}
ø {alt}{0248}_____{Option}{o}
Π{alt}{0140}_____{Shift}{Option}{q}
œ {alt}{0156}_____{Option}{q}
ß (German "ss") {alt}{225}_____{Option}{s}
Ù {alt}{0217}_____{Option}{`}{Shift-u}
ù {alt}{151}______{Option}{`}{u}
Ú {alt}{0218}_____{Option}{e}{Shift-u}
ú {alt}{163}______{Option}{e}{u}
Û {alt}{0219}_____{Option}{i}{Shift-u}
û {alt}{150}______{Option}{i}{u}
Ü {alt}{0220}_____{Option}{u}{Shift-u}
ü {alt}{129}______{Option}{u}{u}
Old English edh ( ð ) {alt}{0240}____{none}
European quotation marks:
« {alt}{174}______{Option}{\}
» {alt}{175}______{Shift}{Option}{\}
Spanish punctuation:
¿ {alt}{168}______{Shift}{Option}{?}
¡ {alt}{173}______{Option}{1}
ª (feminine ordinal) {alt}{166}_____{Option}{9}
º (masculine ordinal) {alt}{167}____{Option}{0}
some of the Greek letters:
α {alt}{224}______{none}
ß {alt}{225}______{Option}{s}
Γ {alt}{226}______{none}
δ {alt}{235}______{Option}{d}
ε {alt}{238}______{none}
Θ {alt}{233}______{none}
µ {alt}{230}______{Option}{m}
π {alt}{227}______{Option}{p}
Σ {alt}{228}______{Option}{w}
σ {alt}{229}______{none}
τ {alt}{231}______{none}
Φ {alt}{232}______{none}
φ {alt}{237}______{none}
Ω {alt}{234}______{Option}{z}
Money symbols:
¢ (cents) {alt}{155}____________{Option}{4}
$ (U.S. dollars) {alt}{036}_______{none}
£ (pounds Sterling) {alt}{156}____{Option}{3}
¥ (yen) {alt}{157}______________{Option}{y}
Typographic special symbols:
(paragraph) {alt}{276}_________{Option}{7}
§ (section) {alt}{277}__________{Option}{6}
† (dagger) {alt}{0134}_________{none}
‡ (double dagger) {alt}{0135}___{none}
(ellipsis) {alt}{0133}_________{Option}{;}
Fractions:
¾ {alt}{0190}_____{none}
½ {alt}{171}______{none}
¼ {alt}{172}______{none}
Mathematical symbols:
± (plus-or-minus) {alt}{241}__________{Shift}{Option}{=}
≥ (greater than or equal to) {alt}{242}__{Option}{.}
≤ (less than or equal to) {alt}{243}_____{Option}{,}
≈ (approximately equal to) {alt}{247}___{Option}{x}
≡ (identically equal to) {alt}{240}______{none}
° (degree) {alt}{248}________________{Option}{0}
· (multiplication dot) {alt}{249}________{Shift}{Option}{.}
÷ (division sign) {alt}{246}____________{Option}{/}
√ (square root) {alt}{251}_____________{Option}{v}
∞ (infinity) {alt}{236}_________________{Option}{5}
º (exponent 0) {alt}{167}______________{Option}{0}
¹ (exponent 1) {alt}{0185}_____________{none}
² (exponent 2) {alt}{0178}_____________{none}
³ (exponent 3) {alt}{0179}_____________{none}
ⁿ (exponent n) {alt}{252}______________{none}
¬ (logical 'not') {alt}{170}______________{Option}{l}
Legal Symbols:
© (copyright) {alt}{0169}________{Option}{g}
® (registered mark) {alt}{0174}__{Option}{r}
™ (trademark) {alt}{0153}_______{Option}{2}
Granted, in the particular case we are talking about here (the edh) there is no Mac equivalent... however that's a different matter from not being able to make them at all. Even for the edh, on the Mac you should be able to find and manually enter any symbol, even those without keyboard shortcuts, by pulling up the Key Caps which shows you every symbol in an entire font.
Hope that helps!
-C
Sandy Straubhaar <orchzis at hotmail.com> wrote:
Sæl ok blessuð. Lyonel sagði:
>
>The lowercase edh is part of the extended ASCII character set. With the
>number lock on, hold down the and, on the numeric keypad, type 0240.
>
Ahh, but that's if you have a PC.
I have had them, and that is what you do.
But on my work Mac that I'm on now, I do it and get this:
0240
I was on my home laptop before.
But here -- tadaaa! -- at work, I can pull down my handy Icelandic flag*
from the pulldown menu and get all the ðs and þs I want.
(*That's if I'm on the Web or in Text Edit. Word won't do it for me on the
Mac. This is one definite advantage of the PC. About the only one, in my
experience)
BUT that doesn't mean these cool characters won't show up on y'all's screens
as ?????s.
>The extended character set also includes an uppercase and lowercase thorn
>(Þ,þ) and an uppercase edh (Ð) but not a wynn.
For that, I just pull down my handy Old English flag and. . .hmmmm.
(For yogh, I just pull down my Middle English flag and - - - - - - - - -)
með beztu kveðju,
brynhildr
quitting while i'm ahead
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