Barely perceptible frost this morning, clear sky, a bit of fog in the river bottom, the wind machines across the river are running, predicted high temperature in the low 60's F. Coffeemaker at work. Can't complain legitimately. -----Alan
In grad school, I had a great printer. Think it was an ink jet. Whatever it was, Dad was able to program it using the ASCII code table to print capital and lowercase thorn, eth and yogh. Well, you really only need lowercase yogh, since you can use 3 for the uppercase. Anyway, my Old English prof was pea green with envy. Said he had to put all of those characters in by hand. That might have been one of the reasons he didn't much like me. Certainly, it showed yet again that my dad can do just about anything.
That certainly would have been convenient; good on your Dad. I can imagine a couple of different ways to do it; most convenient would probably be to call up a keyboard layout that had all the modern English letters, numbers, and punctuation plus a few reassigned keys. We have our computers set to change back and forth between Japanese and English with just two keystrokes [Command + Space]; the Japanese input is done with a standard English keyboard, so is significantly different from a native Japanese keyboard. I think IBM was the first to offer that, then Apple. -----Alan
I found most or all of them at the end of the Latin letters character set of my MacBook. Not sure how to assign them to a keyboard key, but it ought to be possible. Too lazy at the moment. ----Alan
[Video] Delusional Trump Files Baffling Motion in Criminal Case [Click] Trump’s lawyers cite “The Grinch that Stole Christmas.” Yes. Actually. And certainly don’t want to submit their briefing on Boxing Day! (Actually, I doubt they know 12/26 is Boxing Day, or they would have pointed it out.) ——Alan
Barely perceptible frost this morning, clear sky, a bit of fog in the river bottom, the wind machines across the river are running, predicted high temperature in the low 60's F. Coffeemaker at work. Can't complain legitimately.
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Oregon GOP Lawmakers Banned from Re-Election for Walkout [Click] Interesting initiative result; arguments to be heard in court.
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Hell freezes over: Ann Coulter Slams Anti-Abortion Movement After Texas Decision [Click]
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WOW!
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DeleteRural France turned upside-down by farmers [Click] An interesting type of protest; I wonder if others might use it.
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LOST LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET: 9 letters we stopped using [Click]
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The Spanish "colorado" also means simply "Colored." I seem to recall that Spanish has no other color names.
ReplyDeleteIn grad school, I had a great printer. Think it was an ink jet. Whatever it was, Dad was able to program it using the ASCII code table to print capital and lowercase thorn, eth and yogh. Well, you really only need lowercase yogh, since you can use 3 for the uppercase. Anyway, my Old English prof was pea green with envy. Said he had to put all of those characters in by hand. That might have been one of the reasons he didn't much like me. Certainly, it showed yet again that my dad can do just about anything.
ReplyDeleteThat certainly would have been convenient; good on your Dad. I can imagine a couple of different ways to do it; most convenient would probably be to call up a keyboard layout that had all the modern English letters, numbers, and punctuation plus a few reassigned keys. We have our computers set to change back and forth between Japanese and English with just two keystrokes [Command + Space]; the Japanese input is done with a standard English keyboard, so is significantly different from a native Japanese keyboard. I think IBM was the first to offer that, then Apple.
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Google sees all, knows all:
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Old English keyboard layout for Mac OS X [Click]
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å ∫ ç ∂ ´ ƒ © ˙ ˆ ∆ ˚ ¬ µ ˜ ø π œ ® ß † ¨√ ∑ ≈ ¥ Ω
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Œ ∑ ´ ® † Á ¨ ˆ Ø ∏ “ ‘ «
Å Í Î Ï © Ó Ô ˚ Ò … Æ
Ω ≈ Ç √ ı ˜ Â ≤ ≥ ÷
Can't find thorn (þ/Þ) on my keyboard.
But wanted to say þancie.
I found most or all of them at the end of the Latin letters character set of my MacBook. Not sure how to assign them to a keyboard key, but it ought to be possible. Too lazy at the moment.
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Oh, Spanish has lots of other color names.
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[Video] Delusional Trump Files Baffling Motion in Criminal Case [Click] Trump’s lawyers cite “The Grinch that Stole Christmas.” Yes. Actually. And certainly don’t want to submit their briefing on Boxing Day! (Actually, I doubt they know 12/26 is Boxing Day, or they would have pointed it out.)
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ae is probably among the "a" characters.
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The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell 12/13/23 [Click]
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Voyager 1 has stopped communicating with Earth
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[Video] Stephen Colbert: Republicans have no evidence to impeach Biden [Click]
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