On Jan 2, 2024, at 4:53?PM, Otto Nikolaus via groups.io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
?0 on the Mac gives me ?, which *looks* like a degree symbol but is actually the ¡°masculine ordinal indicator¡±. I suppose it doesn¡¯t really matter because it's obvious what is meant.
I¡¯ve noticed that many people don¡¯t bother; they just type C or F instead of ¡ã (or ?).
I¡¯m assuming that the glyphs assigned to keys on Apple devices are encoded in the OS, and likely in firmware rather than software. I THINK there are iOS and macOS apps that permit one to query what¡¯s actually being pulled from wherever such items are stored, but haven¡¯t yet looked for them. I¡¯m aware that NOT caring what¡¯s ¡°meant¡± by what¡¯s on the screen or on paper so long as it LOOKS correct can lead to errors in scientific publications (I discovered a few in the pinnacle of weekly medical journals, the New England Journal of Medicine, several years ago, when I requested electronic pdfs of a few articles from the publisher. Very early on in my romance with the Mac, my then primary school-aged son discovered the mischief he could wreak on me by changing the assigned language for my keyboard, and delighted in doing so for the few hours it took me to figure out what he was doing.
Does anyone here have recommendations for apps that inform the user what glyphs actually are being entered when one presses one or a combination of keys, either on the Mac OR on an iOS device (or better, on each of them)? I¡¯m assuming that wherever that electronic lookup table resides on each platform, what appears on screen will be an accurate bitmap image of what¡¯s been encoded.
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Jim Robertson
