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How to get symbols?

jowilker

Mon May 18, 2015 12:33:57 pm

Symbols: On my windows maching I can hold the Alt key and 167 and I get the little degree circle. If I hold down the Alt key using Zorin and hit 1 it takes me to a different tab.

How does one add the little circle at the top to rep a temp?

John

Wolfman

Tue May 19, 2015 10:29:56 am

Hi,

I don't understand this: "hold the Alt key and 167"?.

Swarfendor437

Tue May 19, 2015 11:13:05 am

I have to do this at work on a semi regular basis. Your Alt Code for the degree sign is incomplete:

Alt+ 0167

jowilker

Wed May 20, 2015 12:46:47 am

http://www.alt-codes.net/

John

Swarfendor437

Wed May 20, 2015 11:40:19 am

My fault (your mistake! :lol:

)

Try:

Alt+ 0176

jowilker

Fri May 22, 2015 12:47:46 am

How about when using Facebook?

John

Swarfendor437

Fri May 22, 2015 11:44:45 am

Open a document in LibreOffice - create your symbol then copy and paste into Facebook page you are writing to.

It is what I do on here for foreign characters.

jowilker

Sun May 24, 2015 11:00:17 am

That seems to defeat the term "shortcut".

John

Swarfendor437

Sun May 24, 2015 10:31:35 pm

Sometimes it depends on whether the browser or website allows such symbols via shortcuts - but I just don't know! :shock:

Linx

Mon Jun 22, 2015 3:59:27 am

I literally didn't know how to do this till right now, always time to learn something new.

Ok so you press "ctrl+shift+u" there should be an underlinded u that appears Then you type the unicode code for it so for the degree symbol it is 1d52 then you press space to replace the unicode string with the unicode character.

Found this here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1767498

Hope this helps!