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
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
On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, cr wrote:
> > This is probably an elementary query, but I can't find the answer in any
> > help files!
> >
> > How does one produce a special (i.e. non-keyboard) ASCII character in a
> > Linux or X application (like t
In gnome there is an applet character-picker and and a program gcharmap.
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On Thursday 02 January 2003 14:35, Peter wrote:
> In gnome there is an applet character-picker and and a program gcharmap.
Thanks. I'd overlooked that.
cr
£££ - it works!
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, cr wrote:
> This is probably an elementary query, but I can't find the answer in any help
> files!
>
> How does one produce a special (i.e. non-keyboard) ASCII character in a Linux
> or X application (like text editors etc)?For example, the pounds sign,
> chr$(163).
>
> Alt
This is probably an elementary query, but I can't find the answer in any help
files!
How does one produce a special (i.e. non-keyboard) ASCII character in a Linux
or X application (like text editors etc)?For example, the pounds sign,
chr$(163).
Alt + doesn't seem to work.
cr
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