Questions about 3 "odd"keyboard characters

[limbo]

here's a quicky for you.

what do these characters represent?

1. ~
2. ¬
3. ^

Ta

Limbo

[troels nybo nielsen]

I use the first one in words like niña and in www.my-domain.dk/~mysite/

[limbo]

troels nybo nielsen

How did you make the n form a tilda?

the ^ would be the trema then? - how do I combine the letter and character - is it a keyborad short cut? - I know that alt gr + vowel provides the accented vowels but I get to this point and then I am stuck.

Ta

Limbo

[limbo]

Just found:

á Alt + 0225 Á Alt + 0193
é Alt + 0233 É Alt + 0201
í Alt + 0237 Í Alt + 0205
ñ Alt + 0241 Ñ Alt + 0209
ó Alt + 0243 Ó Alt + 0211
ú Alt + 0250 Ú Alt + 0218
ü Alt + 0252 Ü Alt + 0220
¿ Alt + 0191 ¡ Alt + 0161
« Alt + 0171 » Alt + 0187

and:

á ; , a
Á ; , Shift + a
é ;, e
É ;, Shift + e
í ;, i
Í ;, Shift + i
ñ Shift + `, n
Ñ Shift + `, Shift + n
ó ;, o
Ó ;, Shift + o
ú ;, u
Ú ;, Shift + u
ü Shift + ;, u
Ü Shift + ;, Shift + u

(comma indicates sequence)

Answers my questions about the tilda and accents

now what are

¬
^

?

Ta

Limbo

[troels nybo nielsen]

With my Danish keyboard and my Danish Windows ñ is actually very simple: I press ~ and then n.

^ is accent circonflex

I think that your #2 is a typographic symbol

[humpingdan]

i know some of those charecters especially ~
are used in ms-dos when a file name is longer than a certain number of characters, also in basic programming!

my ten pence worth!

[limbo]

Thanks

is ~ a mathematical symbol? that would equate to "approximately"?

It seems ¬ is a total white elephant?

although it looks like a 'toe ended' carriage return.

I don't know why I need this knowledge but it is bugging me not knowing.

Ta

Limbo.

[bcolflesh]

Searching for:

¬

in Google seems to break the page template, no "Your search - - did not match any documents." verbiage, just the footer.

[troels nybo nielsen]

Try to search for ISO 8859-1. That should bring you to a table where the sign is.

[aevea]

The tilde (~) is used for all sorts of weird things. I've seen it used in books as a logical not (¬) and it has some unix/programming meanings I don't understand. The caret (^) or circumflex is used to denote exponents and insertions as well as accents.

Adam

[edited by: aevea at 6:37 pm (utc) on Jan. 21, 2004]

[DrDoc]

~ = tilde
¬ = not
^ = circumflex

Here's a range of the most common "odd" characters:
×÷¿¾½¼»º¹¸·¶µ³²±°¯®¬«ª©¨§¦¥¤£¢¡
:)

you beat me to it aevea

[troels nybo nielsen]

I once met a sweet girl named Tilde. :)

[TheDoctor]

And you can more or less use these for anything that you want. The "@" got involved in email addresses because it was hanging around there on the keyboard doing nothing.

[edit]This is a follow-up to DrDoc's post, not, of course, troels nybo nielsen's. Tilde presumably can't be used for anything you want :-).[/edit]

[edited by: TheDoctor at 6:48 pm (utc) on Jan. 21, 2004]

[DrDoc]

Alternative e-mail addresses:

foobar©example.com
widget¶example.org

;)

I've also met a girl named Tilde

[edited by: DrDoc at 6:48 pm (utc) on Jan. 21, 2004]

[BlobFisk]

I thought that "@" was used in email addresses because it means "at"...? So, that an email address would be:

name at domain dot TLD

A nice convention for email addresses I always thought!

[TheDoctor]

I thought that "@" was used in email addresses because it means "at"...?

This was a neat coincidence. See Where Wizards Stay up Late

[DrDoc]

[dictionary.reference.com...] "@". ASCII code 64. Common names: at sign, at,
strudel. Rare: each, vortex, whorl, INTERCAL: whirlpool,
cyclone, snail, ape, cat, rose, cabbage, amphora. ITU-T:
commercial at.

The @ sign is used in an electronic mail address to separate
the local part from the hostname.

It is ironic that @ has become a trendy mark of Internet
awareness since it is a very old symbol, derived from the
latin preposition "ad" (at).

Giorgio Stabile, a professor of history in Rome, has traced
the symbol back to the Italian Renaissance in a Roman
mercantile document signed by Francesco Lapi on 1536-05-04.

In Dutch it is called "apestaartje" (little ape-tail), in
German "affenschwanz" (ape tail). The French name is
"arobase". In Spain and Portugal it denotes a weight of about
25 pounds, the weight and the symbol are called "arroba".
Italians call it "chiocciola" (snail).

In Swedish it's officially called "snabel-A" ("A with a trunk"), though many people call it "apsvans" ("monkey tail") or "kanelbull" ("cinnamon bun").

[edited by: DrDoc at 6:53 pm (utc) on Jan. 21, 2004]

[BlobFisk]

I stand corrected - another book to add to the "must get" list!

;)

[limbo]

Thanks for your answers everyone.

Still a bit unsure what ¬ is.

Funny that there is a chracter on the keyboard that has no apparent function - Now I know it does but what?

Maybe I will try and find an every day use for it like @. First I will name it, What though? Tick tock ....

Crooked moe?
Bent needle?
Door handle?
Crowebarsoft?
Aye Brow?
along a bit then down a bit?

Not exactly inspired. Anyone?

[DrDoc]

As mentioned above, ¬ is a logical NOT... as in:

true == ¬ false

...which means the same as:

true ==!false
true != false

[limbo]

Thanks DrDoc,

I was feeling the effects of a long week when I posted yesterday :)

Hence the fuller than normal glass of jibberish.

Ta

Limbo.

[dannyboy]

~ is one of those useless keys which can be turned into a macro. For instance, I've assigned ~ to a TextPad macro which will remove whitespace at the beginning and end of every line.

I love that retarded key!

[troels nybo nielsen]

> one of those useless keys

A couple of useless keys on my own keyboard are these:

£, $ and €.

Individual users have individual needs.

[shaadi]

I don't have a ¬ key on my keyboard.

I use a samsung keyboard.