as i sat down to type up and edit a couple of blogs, i found a horrible fact.
!!!NERD ALERT!!!
for a solid fifteen years or so, i have been a regular user of some keyboard shortcuts using the ALT key and the number pad on the keyboard. it's a quick way to add symbols(¢£¥♂♀), or those handy diacritical marks when i would write stuff in spanish or french (éçêñ). but above all, it allowed for the quick use of "¿". i use "¿" so often, that when i write stuff for school or for my students i have to proofread to delete them all so i can appear more professional (or at least not so informal). it's just automatic to type these shortcut keys, and NOW...
the blog doesn't recognize all of these key strokes, and even interprets some of these key combinations as me trying to navigate away from the page i'm working on. i had to use Notepad to get the symbols that i put in this post, and even Notepad won't give me the degree symbol or the approximate sign (you know that wavy equals sign).
i use all these symbols all of the time, and if they don't work it's really going to wreak havoc on my typing skills if i have to slow down and remind myself to not hit those keys. the short cuts are so much easier than going through all of the mouseclicks and scrolling to insert a symbol. up until now practically everywhere you could type text accepted these shortcuts. somewhere someone is ruining a good thing.
¿who could i even complain to, to try and stop this horrible trend?
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You can complain to me:
For your blogging you should be using html entities. You just type the part under "entity name" in your blog where you want the symbol to show up and via the magic of html, it'll show up.
¡Exacly!
I've never been smart enough to remember all the key strokes, but I'd love to have the upside down question mark one. (hint, hint)
alt+168 = ¿
make sure you use number keypad and make sure the the Num-Lock key is on.
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