Special characters

Special characters

[cr]

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 + <num keypad>  doesn't seem to work.

cr

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Re: Special characters

[whitnl73]

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 + <num keypad>  doesn't seem to work.
>
> cr

Depends on the app.  joe, FI will generate £ if you type `163
To get a literal `, type ``

Lawson
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Re: Special characters

[Peter]

In gnome there is an applet character-picker and and a program gcharmap.


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Re: Special characters

[cr]

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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Re: Special characters

[cr]

On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:17, whitnl73@juno.com 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 text editors etc)?    For example, the
> > pounds sign, chr$(163).
> >
> > Alt + <num keypad>  doesn't seem to work.
> >
> > cr
>
> Depends on the app.  joe, FI will generate £ if you type `163
> To get a literal `, type ``
>
> Lawson

Thanks.   I'm a little surprised there isn't a semi-'standard' method, a 
little along the lines of the DOS Alt-key method which most M$ apps seem to 
support. However, I can now generate £££ signs (and any others) at will, 
which was the object of my query, so thank you all.

Regards

cr

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