Viernes 19 Marzo 2004 13:08, Andy Wardley wrote: > I'm so happy! I just found out, totally by accident, that I can > type the « and » characters by pressing AltGr + Z and AltGr + X, > respectively. > > Apologies if this is common knowledge, but it was news to me, and I > thought I'd share this little Perl6 of wisdom.
Hi Andy, Well, I did not know about it, so you can be sure that your message has enlighted at least one poor soul. By the way, it has never been easy to write Perl in certain keyboards. The spanish keyboard doesn't have the so perlish character ~, and one must use a different combination depending of your OS (like Alt + 126 or Alt + ˇ or Alt + ń). Most people know about this sequence because the ~ character is a common one in URLs, so the situation is not as bad as i may look. Neverthless, I definetly hope that a future FAQ of perl6 has a big section labeled How do I Write These Funky Chars in My OS. And making a final big show of my ignorance: does anyone know if there is a easier way to write « and » in windows than ALT + 0171 and ALT + 0187? -angel
