Ralph Shumaker wrote: > I've tried to find the check mark symbol in Linux (rh - various versions > now) and have had no success. I can't even find approximations of it > (including the square root sign). Is there some extra font I would have > to download to get this? Or are the check marks in Linux just really > well hidden?
Relevant Unicode character names are U+2713 check mark UTF-8: 0xE2 0x9C 0x93 U+2714 heavy check mark UTF-8: 0xE2 0x9C 0x94 U+221A square root sign (aka radical sign) UTF-8: 0xE2 0x88 0x9A Getting them recorded (encoded) or displayed somewhere depends on various things. Assuming - you are running Xwindows, and your system has /etc/sysconfig/i18n containing something like ------------------------------------------- LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" -------------------------------- (verified by typing locale and seeing LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" ..and so on.. -and you have a recent Linux distribution with iso10646 fonts, then you can get your shell terminal to display by cutting and pasting from the Accessories > Character Map application on the menu, or by (say) echo -e '\xE2\x9C\x93' echo -e '\xe2\x9c\x94' echo -e '\xe2\x88\x9a' That completes the proof-of-concept <heh>. You can also demo the concept by hexediting into a file or, by echo -ne '\xE2\x9C\x93' >checkmark-utf8, and then something like cat checkmark-utf8. I don't do this too much except for html, ..but.. if you are composing a document, then the document presumably has a way to specify the character encoding. And you can cut-n-paste as above. Now, I'm sure there are other ways to get input into a document (perhaps: IIIMF/XIM/successor, just now coming-out) -- but we're going to need to appeal to someone with more expertise than I have. Wherever the document gets displayed and/or printed must, of course, be configured to expect the document to be encoded in UTF-8. ==> Alternatively <== I'm sure you can do this in other unicode encodings (eg, UTF-16), as well as non-unicode choices such as one of the 8859 sets or one of the windows codesets. Perhaps someone else can pick up on follow-up questions. ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
