From: "Peter H." <heisspf@skyinet.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Special Characters in xterm
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:40:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050120024040.B229C39D0D@heisspf> (raw)
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:<bigger> ® ¾ ² £ ° © Ü ï ñ</bigger> etc, etc.
If I need any one I copy in xterm and paste into a text editor or word
processor.
In order to know where they are I just went through all the characters row by
row copied and pasted them into abiword made them bold and anlarged. Printed
the sheet out pasted it on a card board, so they are handy when needed.
Unfortunately the big linux distros try to hide this excellent terminal xterm.
I guess in order to promote their own clumsier versions, just as Fedora will
not even install anymore routinely mc, IMO the best file manager there is and
I have tried quite a few. In KDE mc is installed, however, is not incorporated
into the toolbar menu system. At least I can't find it there in slackware.
Just some thoughts.
Regards
--
Peter
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