Just take a picture of the Wikipedia page and use OCR. No need for that copy and pasting nonsense.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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I do this when writing λ, Δ, Φ, etc. in a document on a computer I don't own or when on my phone. It's genuinely faster than scrolling through Word's symbol list, for example.
You mean \lambda, \Delta and \Phi?
Not all of us are able to use superior tools like LaTeX for our documents, unfortunately
If you are using office, insert formula accepts latex code.
Good to know. Been learning some LaTeX from a friend recently, so I'll have to try this out.
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There are honestly some people I work with who are like this. It's just as nightmarish as it sounds
I actually do this for complicated letter that I don't know.
Like: ë, ñ, ũ, ü, etc
On Android ü just hard press the letter and they all pop up. ñot hárd
Æ
Compose-Shift-a-e
There's something a bit upsetting about how finding it online is faster and easier than using an application purpose-built for this purpose (Character Map)
I used to google for it, but now I ask chatgpt. Thats probably way worse resource-wise, right?
this is causing me physical pain
It's even worse on mobile. I have no idea how to do this without changing my phone's whole locale.
I'm not sure about your specific setup, but usually on mobiles you can hold your finger on a letter to see variants/accent marks.
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I actually find it a lot easier on mobile, because you can see all the symbols available to type without having to memorise them or have 2-4 different characters printed on each key. Gboard has almost every special character I ever need to use accessible in its two extra screens, and accented letters like êëéèē accessible by long-pressing the base letter.
Unexpected Keyboard (on F-Droid) is also fantastic for extra characters, give it a try, but I don't use it as a daily driver because of lack of spellcheck and glide typing.
Prêss æñd høld for Samsung and Google keyboards
That application was made before the turn of the fucking millennium and it has a bad UI design?
I know, right?
For real though, Linux Mint comes with what seems to be a clone of it, name included, and I'm pretty sure I've seen other clones of it integrated into writing software. There have been plenty of opportunities to improve on the formula, and the experience is improved slightly, it's just not enough.
Edit: turns out the one in Mint is GNOME Character Map.
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Honestly shit like that works really well when half of your notebook's keyboard doesn't work anymore. The on screen keyboard is limited and copy pasting letters from texts can be faster. Especially with special characters. Or when you just need an a or s, opening the on screen keyboard again and again vs copy pasting it once and using it as a source - the second one is faster.
I am very sad and desperate I can't afford a new laptop
What's the model? I know a decent bit about laptop repair and I can do some research for you to see whether it would be a massive pain to replace the keyboard.
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You could get an external keyboard to use with your laptop.
I literally have one at home and didn't think of that. Thanks.
You joke but Google is the easiest way to get the Euro symbol on a UK keyboard.
Isn't that just AltGr+4? A lot of UK keyboards write € on the 4 keycap next to the $.
You sure you're not thinking of the Pound symbol (£)? The Euro symbol (€) would have to be a third thing, if it's there at all.
I'm not British and don't know their keyboard layout, so maybe you're right, but I would expect £ to be accessible and € less so.
Edit: oh, you were right. £ is Shift+3, € is AltGr+4.
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You guys are taking this Brexit thing really seriously.
I just wanna know when their referendum to join the US is gonna happen
It's not as fun if we don't steal it from them...
Kicking the ass of the British is just repetitive and boring at this point. We've already done that twice. We've only defeated the French once, and I'm sure they'll put up more of a fight, when we tell them they have to speak American.
/s
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