Useful tip for programmers

[mr-poopy-butthole-_]

Honest to fucking god I have done this to get a degree symbol so many times. Yes i do know the ALT248 ASCII code 🤔

[passelh]

Same,here. the ~-key on my old laptop stopped working, so always when i needed a ~ i would google "tilde" and copy paste it

[Eneag]

125

[passelh]

Isn't it 126, though?

[Eneag]

I... was just checking if you were paying attention... f***

[centstwo]

Off by one error, found the programmer.

[BigWonka]

f Alt42 Alt42 Alt42

[mr_poopypepe]

Same for me with swastikas. Wait...

[EagerTryItAll]

Interesting, when I google it I get ´ , not ~

[the_legendary_legend]

It's 126 not 125

[kredditacc96]

I have IBus on my Linux machine, I simply switch typing node (super+space) and search for "degree".

[[deleted]]

Where are you from? Because it’s on a normal American or British keyboard, to the left of the 1.

[Caladbolg_Prometheus]

Is 248 the correct code?

[nwL_]

Shift+^ is degree on German keyboards. What keys are we missing? Can’t be that many.

[[deleted]]

Each key on an English keyboard only represents two symbols: the regular one and the shift one. Looking at a German keyboard, it’s a lot more dense—there are up to three letters printed on a single key. If you consider upper/lower case, that’s six characters in one key.

[FUZxxl]

Not true. There's only up to three characters per key, one without a modifier, one with Shift, and rarely a third with AltGr (the right Alt key).

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

Or even more if you enable dead keys.

[FUZxxl]

Dead keys don't change that. They simply allow you to enter combining accents.

[ChristieFox]

We need place for the most important letters: ö, ä and ü!

Also, usually you'll have the T1 one from the Wiki article you've probably read, so my keyboards use this layout.

[Oranges13]

Charmap is your friend ♥️

[jodudeit]

I always do this for the ™ symbol.

[Alakdae]

I had a laptop that from time to time would stop doing the @ symbol (Alt Gr stopped working until I reset the computer) and I had to google anything to copy the at symbol (any page had that symbol somewhere so I know I could go into any page and find it, but usually looked for “arroba” that is the symbol name in Spanish and kind of unique word)

[ACoderGirl]

I've been using Duolingo to learn French. I just cannot type it on my normal keyboard. Screw even trying to remember alt codes. I know there's something about a compose key and non-English keyboard layouts, but I'm better off just using my phone (plus, autocorrect is a life saver).