Special Characters in xterm

2005-01-19 Thread Peter H.
Hi, every now and then somebody asks how to produce special characters. May be little is known that 75 of them can be produced in xterm on a US keyboard by pressing Alt or Alt/Shift plus the character. For example: ® ¾ ² £ ° © Ü ï ñ etc, etc. If I need any one I copy in xterm and past

Special Characters in Xterm

2004-05-31 Thread Peter H.
Hi, In the terminal Xterm one can produce special characters by pressing Alt + key such as Alt 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = \ q gives ± ² ³ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ ° ­ ½ Ü ñ and many more. This can only be done with xterm and not in any other terminal, various editors or word processors. Why is that? Would i