On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:44:27 -0400 Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 9/7/2010 9:34 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:01:11 -0700 > > Carl Johnson<ca...@peak.org> wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured > >> out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD). > > > > As Camaleón has explained, it's really pretty straightforward: press > > ctrl-shift-u simultaneously, then release all three; you'll see an > > underlined 'u'. Now enter the hex code for the character, one digit at > > a time, then press enter when finished. Voila, you'll get the Unicode > > character! > > > > Celejar > > This question brought up an interesting, and bigger question: > > In DOS and all versions of Windows, going back to the stone age, you > could hold ALT and press 3 digits of the extended (128~255) ASCII > table, using the number pad, and get all kinds of foreign and other > useful characters. For instance, if you wanted a German ess-tset > character, you would hold ALT and push 225, like this: ß. I'm writing > this from Win 7, and you can see that it works. It also works in Open > Office in the Windows version. Something similar in MS Word--I think > Word requires a 0 before the code. > > As far as I can tell, this does _not_ work in Debian or in PcLinuxOs, > the two Lx's I have present access to. Not in plain files like KWrite, Did you try the method I gave above? It's very similar to what you describe, just much more powerful - giving you all Unicode, not just extended ASCII. > and not in Open Office. I don't understand what the above correspondent > is getting at (I don't know what Unicode is). How, in plain English, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode It's rather overwhelming and confusing, but basically, it's a large set of characters that includes all sorts of different alphabets. > can one get foreign characters in Linux without using an international > keyboard? (I assume that works, as the international keyboard is a Of course. > choice in many distros, under Locale.) Or is it basically just not > possible? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100908000734.c6b92f8b.cele...@gmail.com
