Sunday, October 9, 2016

Re: How to input character 'ƒ' (U+0192)

Tim Chase wrote:
> In insert mode, using control+V followed by "u" ("Unicode") followed
> by 0192 gives me the character you show. You can make a digraph, say
> something like "f," to make it easier to remember:
>
> :digraph f, 402
>
> (402 is the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal 0192 that you
> want). Then, in running text, you can use control+k followed by the
> "f," (no quotes) to get the character.
>
> If you use it more frequently and want something with fewer
> characters, you can create a insert-mode mapping something like
>
> :inoremap <f4> <c-v>u0192
>
> letting you use <f4> to input your symbol.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
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Absolutely! Some of the charsets have the small and large
version look the same but differing by size, so it's slightly
challenging to know which by look -- fortunately, cut & pasted
the original from a free Unicode charmap (BabelMap) tool, so
I didn't have any instances of the wrong char in my program...
(thought I'd use the function symbol in front of a 'function' (vs.
a object method that would take a pointer) in perl.

First time was an experiment but it's more convenient or looks
more aesthetically pleasing to use the function symbol rather than
an underline, which I've oft used to indicate such.


and the

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