On Monday 03 January 2005 20:13, Anne Wilson wrote: > Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment > reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special > characters all that often, but when I do I have to use > kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful tool). I used to be > able to memorise a few select ASCII codes and enter them by > alt+numberpad code. That's much quicker if you are preparing a > longish document. I find it hard to believe that there isn't a > similar facility in Linux, but I haven't found it yet. Does it > exist? > > Anne
Anne, as a native English-speaker, you don't have to remember that many ASCII escape-sequences. But a few, nevertheless, come in handy like ½ (½), @ (@), £ (£) and a few more. As a "foreigner" it is much harder, what with æ,ø and å, all the French accents and so on. So, when I write some html, I just type what I want in my own charset and when done, I use the editors "search & replace". Voilá. - Can be viewed correctly in any browser on the planet. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8*
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