%% looks kludgy to me.
N: is cryptic
I just don't understand why this is an issue.
jw
On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 01:41 pm, John Chambers wrote:
John McChesney-Young writes:
| John Chambers wrote in part:
|
| >©: 1998 Joe Smith ...
| >
| >But some people might have problems figuring out how to type this. On
| >many linux and *BSD systems, you can get the copyright symbol with
| >the ALT-) (or ALT-SHIFT-0) combination, but I don't think this will
| >work on Windoze or Mac systems.
|
| In Mac OS most fonts assign the copyright symbol keystroke
| combination OPTION-G.
With the Terminal on my new Powerbook (OSX) it beeps at me and nothing appears on the screen. Now, this window is ssh'd to a FreeBSD box, but I know it's not the software there that's doing it. I typed the earlier message via an xterm on a linux system, ssh'd to the same machine, and the ALT-) went right through without problems. So I'd have to say that the Mac's Terminal app is what's rejecting the OPTION-G char and beeping at me. I've dug around in the help stuff, but haven't found any clues. Lots of idiot-level help for how to use the menus and set the font, which I guessed on my own. But nothing I can find that let's me input the rest of the character set.
| I'm *guessing* in my state of large-scale ignorance that since the | text of JC's message is displaying correctly in my screen font of | Geneva (in Eudora Pro) that the symbol has the same location in the | keyboard map that his system has given it. I'm very open to | correction though. | | This is my OPTION-G: ©.
One annoying thing here is that the silly FreeBSD version of vi insists on rewriting that as \xa9, although outside the editor it displays as the copyright glyph. It's yet another silly barrier to getting the text displayed right, and I haven't found a way to fix it. I wish the little beast weren't trying to "help" me so much. If I copy such files over to a linux box, the editors display the chars correctly. I've gotten quite familiar with such idiocies, as I work routinely on a flock of machines scattered across the Net, all running different releases of different vendors' systems. You'd think they could all handle inputting and displaying a copyright char correctly by now, what with all the fuss over copyright issues.
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