Comments on: Thè jóy öf áçcênts

By: Fad

Fad — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:36:15 +0000

@Zoltan The right Alt key on a UK Extended keyboard is called ‘Alt Gr’. It is the equivalent of holding down the normal Alt+Ctrl keys, and therefore helps avoid fingertip acrobatics.

Erm, and Darien: I’m sorry to pick a bone with you but “in modern versions of Windows” we can now do this? We have been able to use the Alt Gr keyboard shortcut since at least Windows 95. It’s possible a lot of people didn’t realise this because Win9x didn’t setup the UK *extended* keyboard by default.

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By: Zoltan Roman

Zoltan Roman — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:55:44 +0000

From the colonies: what’s Gr to me (I assume it is on British keyboards)?
Thanks ZR

By: stasi47

stasi47 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:57:18 +0000

Linux?! You have to be kidding! Most people won’t even succeed installing non-standard languages (e.g.: HOWTO of Sinhala Sanskrit: http://www.nongnu.org/sinhala/doc/howto/sinhala-howto.html ) let alone being able to discover how the input software works.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:38:14 +0000

More of a general answer to making life easier:
Alt-076
Alt-105
Alt-110
Alt-117
Alt-120

Ta-daa!

By: Maurice

Maurice — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:18:06 +0000

Alas, the option for UK Extended doesn’t seem to exist in XP Home SP3 keyboard settings. I’ll just have to continue to rely on Microsoft Visual Keyboard, which is a bit of a pain, but still better than the Alt+character number alternatives.

Anyone have any other suggestions?

By: stasi47

stasi47 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:15:11 +0000

@Nick Thorp:
Hi
It won’t make things easier, but at least this website may help you clarify how to invoke “β” using different encodings.
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e9e/index.htm

And there is much more about Unicode characters than that, see here: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/a.htm

By: Nick Thorp

Nick Thorp — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:37:01 +0000

Thanks for the very useful tip. Do you also know how to get the German “β” character using the AltGr combination?

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:17:01 +0000

The most frequent grunts of surprsie I get when leaning over people’s shoulders using Windows Explorer, are the clickable column-sorts in Detail view. Naturally, WE all know about them, don’t we… but the fact is, users don’t. What’s the top ten largest documents in the current directory? the newest? How many PDFs have you got? Detail view in Explorer makes the answers to those trivial – yet there’s a shedload of utilities out there that “make up for Windows” not offering these abilites.

As for the “buy a Mac| thing, don’t even talk to me about Finder and large directory manipulation. Especially with the multitouch clickpad on the new Mac Pro: once I master doing that I’m going to move on to tiddleywinks with Rubik’s Cubes – it will be easier.

By: Darien Graham-Smith

Darien Graham-Smith — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:53:05 +0000