[ltp] Re: [OT] degrees, ordinals...

[Daniel]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 03:11:43PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> T43, US keyboard:  AltGr-SHIFT-0 SPACE (˚), or AltGr-SHIFT-0 a (å), etc.
> 
> They made it into the ring accent :)  At least now I know how to type the
> Angstrom symbol (not that I ever needed it, I prefer the SI units).
> 
> So it looks like the keyboard itself does some of the AltGR processing.
> Hmm...

Ok, this is getting seriously off-topic:

I can't see any special processing going on; do
$ xkbprint -ll 3 :0 keyboardmap.ps
and look at the file. You should see 'degree' mentioned right on the '0' key.
In other words it's just the X servers keymap.


regards,
Daniel
-- 
What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but
if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
	-- Richard P. Feynman