Interpunct Puns

Hey people,

I use the US International keyboard with Altgr keys:

        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbVariant" "altgr-intl"

I want to type the Interpunct, whose Wikipedia page says that in Unicode it is: U+00B7. How can I find out how to type it with my keymap? (if it is even possible, which one would think so, since it's pretty popular). Is there a page or something with each map and its unicode or name? (e.g. AltGr-s equals ß/Eszett/U+00DF) That would be handy.

Thanks a lot in advance!

I'm a graphic designer, and I do a lot of designs in my spare time based off Japanese culture and mythology, though I don't have the greatest grasp on the written language. Currently, I'm doing a design that's inspired by the painting 'Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre', and I was curious if it would be appropriate to use the interpunct in スケルトン · 幽霊, or if it should just be スケルトン 幽霊. Also, if there's a more accurate translation of "Skeleton Spectre", that'd be helpful!

Thanks guys!

I was just messing around in C# making a program that would output every readable character in the console. It works but for some reason ∙ (0x2219) causes an audible beep whenever it is output. As far as I know it isn't meant to do this. I had a check in CMD to see if its the same and I get the same beep. Anyone have any suggestions on what is causing this? Example code to reproduce is below:

echo ∙

Console.Write((char)0x2219);

Well I kind of worked it out. I was under the assumption that console windows were code page 437 encoding but it turns out windows has a different special code page known as sbcs. So to summarise it makes a beep as its not a valid character and it shouldn't be output. For anyone after a short code snippet that will output every available char for the console check below:

Encoding enc = Console.OutputEncoding;
Enumerable.Range((int)char.MinValue, (int)char.MaxValue).
           Select(c => enc.GetString(enc.GetBytes(((char)c).ToString()))[0]).
           //This ugly bit of code above converts to a byte and back again so that none distinct chars
           //emerge
           Distinct().
           Where(c => !char.IsControl(c)).
           ToList().
           ForEach(c => Console.Write(c));

I don't need any exact year or anything - I'd expect the change to be gradual anyway - but the exact time period would be nice if there is one.

For a name such as 艾布·穆罕默德, which is the correct Unicode character for the dot? There are a handful in UTF-8 that may be correct and look the same, but I want to make sure what I use follows an accepted standard.

I'm pretty much set with this new keyboard, that has the US International layout: accents, eñes, etc... ain't a problem. BUT! I cannot see how to write the interpunct or middle dot or middot character, used in the Catalan language for certain words.

I use Windows 7 and Xubuntu, if the final solution is to do a macro or something like that.

Does somebody know how to write it? I write in catalan daily, so i truly need it. I've searched the internet, but in vain.

Thanks for your attention.

Do you have some articles/pdfs to help you with grammar, interpunction rules, and expanding your vocabulary?

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!