NancyLebovitz comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census Survey: Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 October 2012 02:54:52PM 1 point [-]

Maybe if there are enough people of color who've grown up in Denmark, then Danish is no longer a white ethnicity.

Also, I don't know whether the connotations of "ethnicite'" are the same as the connotations of "ethnicity".

How do you get the accent? I tried typing alt-0233, and my computer just beeped at the numbers.

Comment author: dbaupp 21 October 2012 10:22:38AM 3 points [-]

For unusual characters, googling some sort of vague description and then copy-pasting from one of the first 5 results often works, e.g. 'e accent' or (as a purely contrived example) an eth (ð).

Or you can use a site like this which allows you to draw the character and then copy paste.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 21 October 2012 01:42:35AM 2 points [-]

How do you get the accent?

I copy the character from a character map.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 October 2012 04:29:47PM 0 points [-]

I have an Italian keyboard. ;-) The Alt-nnnn thing only works with the left Alt key, the number keypad and only under Windows, AFAIK.

Comment author: faul_sname 21 October 2012 07:21:15AM 1 point [-]

Mac laptops have alt+keyboard keys, so é would be alt+e then e if you're on a mac.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 October 2012 08:24:51AM 0 points [-]

Ubuntu does the same with the Italian keyboard, only it's AltGr and , (comma) for the acute accent (which I use when I need one on a vowel other than E in languages other than Italian). I think it can be made to do the same with a US keyboard (where the right Alt becomes the AltGr).