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Re: character entities for keycap symbols?
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: character entities for keycap symbols?
- From: Tony Graham <tgraham at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:03:46 -0400 (EST)
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At 22 Feb 2000 10:56 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Sunthar.Visuvalingam@informit.com was heard to say:
> | Is there a set of character entities that represent keycap
> | symbols commonly used in computer books? In this instance, I'm
> | specifically looking for the Control Key Symbol of Apple MAC
> | Keyboard.
...
> (Does Unicode have characters for these things? It shouldn't,
> IMHO, but that hasn't stopped them in the past :-)
Unicode 3.0 added ⃣, COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP, but that
combines only with the previous character, so "control⃣" would
put the enclosing keycap around the "l".
If I misread you and you're looking for the Macintosh four-loop
command key symbol, it's encoded as ⌘, PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN.
Regards,
Tony Graham
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