On 14 Feb 2021 at 13:32:36 GMT, "Mayayana"  wrote:

> "The Natural Philosopher"  wrote
>
> | > Not that it really matters. It's pretty much all ASCII.
> | >
> | >
> | Schrödingers cat would disagree - or ½ of him would.
> |
>
>   :) I always wonder how people end up using these characters.
> There are ways to do it. I can copy the character from existing
> text. On Windows I think there's Charmap, though I've never
> used it. Schrodinger will just have to get by without his umlaut.
> Just as "naive" has survived without one.
>
>   Then there's the matter of the mechanical entry system. My
> keyboard only has ASCII and a few extras.

So does mine. But in System Prefs -> Keyboard -> Keyboard-tab I have ticked
"Show Keyboard Viewer in menu bar". Then if I open that while some app is
running, I get a window showing the keyboard and showing the key(s) that I
have currently pressed. They also show what char I would get from pressing
some key combo, such as a key modifier like Alt or Shift.

So Alt-v gets me √ and Alt-7 gets me ¶ and so on. There is also a simple way
to modify such as e to get é or è which is indicated by some keys which turn
orange in this keyboard window when a modifier is pressed. So if I press Alt
by itself, the e key turns orange and shows ´. The ` key also turns orange and
shows `. This tells me that if I press Alt and e followed by e then I get é,
and if I press Alt and ` followed by e I get è.

So it's all simple and visual, no fucking hex shit to remember, that's all for
the birds. And so I can do quite a lot of extra chars just from the ASCII
keyboard with no problems.

If I open the Character Viewer instead from the menu bar then I can include
quite a large number of symbols just by dragging to this app's compose window.
Have the white and black queens: ♕ and ♛. The Character Viewer gives me
access
to all of Unicode.

And just to keep TNP happy here's some Gujarati: શ ણ ઊ ૐ . Hope it's
not
rude.

--
Tim

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05