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By: Humanist Symposium #27 « This humanist

Humanist Symposium #27 « This humanist — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:47:19 +0000

[...] members of many faiths and none, Open Parachute and family create their own way of expressing gratitude for their shared meal. A walk in the rain provides a time to reflect and think about renewal for [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:29:57 +0000

@ Heraclides:

I’m on a PC. Usually I just use the Character Map facility so don’t have a list of keystrokes handy.
Problem is that the Symbol font characters don’t copy over correctly. Maybe they aren’t Unicode.

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:55:24 +0000

Ahhhh, I see. I’m a programmer and we use != to indicate inequality so the other symbol threw me. Cheers.

By: Heraclides

Heraclides — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:07:54 +0000

Are you on a Mac or PC? On a Mac, I’ve memorised the main short-cuts that I find useful. On a Mac, ≠ is alt + = (typed at the same time).

Others (have to show off…), e.g. é ü ø ˚ (degree) Å (angstroms unit) can all be typed in a similar fashion.

Most of the Greek characters, relational symbols, units and “accent” marks associated with some languages have shortcuts.

You can look up Character Palette to get the full sets, including those without shortcuts. There is also some way to type in Japanese, etc., like this.

This only works if the page supports Unicode, not all do. (HTTP headers control this aspect, or are supposed to anyway.)

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:55:50 +0000

OK – how did you do it?

By: Heraclides

Heraclides — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:52:34 +0000

≠ ?

My post crossed, obviously!

By: Heraclides

Heraclides — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:46:54 +0000

@3: I think he means does not equals-?? He could have written that !=, which might be more recognisable to some computer programmers (‘!’ is usually treated as ‘not’ in logic). English might have been better still!

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:43:05 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion Ian -I’ll submit it and see what happens.
Damian the = symbol with the diagonal slash is used for not equal to. But it’s hard to do it with the normal characters on the keyboard and =/= does look a bit funny. There is a character (unicode 0xB9) in the symbol font but I don’t know how you get this into a comment.

Do you know a way to use such characters in comments?

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:11:59 +0000

What does the “=/=” symbol mean? (I’m left wondering if you are saying that secularism equals atheism or that it does not equal atheism)

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:03:40 +0000

This is when people begin to realize that secularism =/= atheism. Great story (you should submit it to the Humanist Symposium).