[9fans] Acme and unicode

[9fans] Acme and unicode

[hugo rivera]

Hi guys:
I hope this is not a very silly question, but I do not remember how to
write unicode characters in Acme. I am using plan 9 from user space on
FreeBSD.
As far as I remember, it was something like Alt+X SOME_NUMBER, but
this does not work.

Saludos

Hugo

Re: [9fans] Acme and unicode

[a]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 147 bytes --]

keyboard(7) (keyboard(6) on plan 9). lots of shortcuts for
specific things, but alt+x+1234 should produce glyphs.
see also $PLAN9/lib/keyboard.

[-- Attachment #2: Type: message/rfc822, Size: 2088 bytes --]

From: "hugo rivera" <uair00@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] Acme and unicode
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:44:30 +0200
Message-ID: <138575260805140744p49b14760y2414169d97890262@mail.gmail.com>

Hi guys:
I hope this is not a very silly question, but I do not remember how to
write unicode characters in Acme. I am using plan 9 from user space on
FreeBSD.
As far as I remember, it was something like Alt+X SOME_NUMBER, but
this does not work.

Saludos

Hugo

Re: [9fans] Acme and unicode

[andrey mirtchovski]

http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/keyboard.html

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:44 AM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys:
>  I hope this is not a very silly question, but I do not remember how to
>  write unicode characters in Acme. I am using plan 9 from user space on
>  FreeBSD.
>  As far as I remember, it was something like Alt+X SOME_NUMBER, but
>  this does not work.
>
>  Saludos
>
>  Hugo
>
>

Re: [9fans] Acme and unicode

[Skip Tavakkolian]

/lib/keyboard (or $PLAN9/lib/keyboard in your case).

> Hi guys:
> I hope this is not a very silly question, but I do not remember how to
> write unicode characters in Acme. I am using plan 9 from user space on
> FreeBSD.
> As far as I remember, it was something like Alt+X SOME_NUMBER, but
> this does not work.
>
> Saludos
>
> Hugo

Re: [9fans] Acme and unicode

[Russ Cox]

> keyboard(7) (keyboard(6) on plan 9). lots of shortcuts for
> specific things, but alt+x+1234 should produce glyphs.
> see also $PLAN9/lib/keyboard.

It is perhaps worth pointing out that in Plan 9
(and in Plan 9 from User Space), Alt is just a
key like any other, not a modifier like Shift:
you don't have to hold it down through the entire
sequence.  It is also perhaps worth pointing out
that the letter must be a capital X.

So you can type Alt, X, 2, 6, 3, a to get ☺.

Russ

Re: [9fans] Acme and unicode

[John Stalker]

> It is perhaps worth pointing out that in Plan 9
> (and in Plan 9 from User Space), Alt is just a=20
> key like any other, not a modifier like Shift:
> you don't have to hold it down through the entire
> sequence.

Thanks.  I never noticed that.  Since I need Alt-*
a lot that is very helpful to know.
--
John Stalker
School of Mathematics
Trinity College Dublin
tel +353 1 896 1983
fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Acme and unicode

[hugo rivera]

Thanks a lot for your help, I am not sure what I was doing, but now
everything is ok.
Saludos

Hugo