{"id":8971,"date":"2019-03-11T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8971"},"modified":"2021-02-15T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T14:10:27","slug":"the-s-key-german-special-characters-and-a-linux-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8971","title":{"rendered":"The S key, German special characters and a Linux keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally in recent weeks, this blog has provided information on keyboard shortcuts for unusual characters (<em>unusual for English that is. Ed.<\/em>) on a Linux keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>The last of these took the <em>umlaut<\/em> (diaresis) as its subject (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8901\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8972\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8972\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2019\/03\/Erfurt_Stra\u00dfe.jpg\" alt=\"German road sign for Schlo\u00dfstra\u00dfe in Erfurt\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">German road sign for Schlo\u00dfstra\u00dfe in Erfurt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today, attention turns once again to German and the <strong>s<\/strong> key, which can produce two characters, depending upon the combination of keystrokes.<\/p>\n<p>Depressing the <strong>AltGr<\/strong> key and <strong>s<\/strong> produces &#8220;<strong>\u00df<\/strong>&#8220;, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%9F\">German sharp s or esszett<\/a>, usually transcribed in English as <strong>ss<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The other character that can be produced is &#8220;<strong>\u00a7<\/strong>&#8220;, which can be produced with the <strong>AltGr<\/strong>, <strong>Shift<\/strong> and <strong>s<\/strong> keys.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Section_sign\">Section sign<\/a>, it is believed to originate from the Latin <em>signum sectionis<\/em>, meaning section sign and usually turns up in with reference to legal documents.<\/p>\n<p>Where more than one section of a legal text is involved, the sign is repeated, i.e <strong>\u00a7\u00a7<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally in recent weeks, this blog has provided information on keyboard shortcuts for unusual characters (unusual for English that is. Ed.) on a Linux keyboard. The last of these took the umlaut (diaresis) as its subject (posts passim). Today, attention turns once again to German and the s key, which can produce two characters, depending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9],"tags":[22,23],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-tech","tag-language","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9010,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions\/9010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}