typing pie from keyboard in vi
Joep L. Blom
jlblom at neuroweave.nl
Thu Sep 16 08:17:44 UTC 2010
Doug wrote:
> On 9/16/2010 3:28 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> Is there a way I can type the mathematical symbol pie from my keyboard.
>> Recently one of the professional networking website where I was logging in
>> asked me to enter CAPTCHA and in their security verification image
>> they had given pie to be entered.
>> I do not use Windows to use any type of virtual keyboard.
>> Where in my US English keyboard I can do that.
>>
Open Applications -> Accessories -> charactermap
Find ?, select it (click on it) and copy (CTRL/C) and paste (CTRL/V).
There are other methods but this is the easiest.
> How can anyone reading their website enter pi (correct spelling) if
> you can't even find it yourself? However, you can find it in Unicode
>
> Unicode Character 'GREEK SMALL LETTER PI' (U+03C0)
>
> or, I think, U+03A0, for the capital letter, if I read the chart correctly.
>
> Dig into the Unicode stuff in Google. It's confusing.
> --doug
Joep
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