Special Characters in Xterm

Special Characters in Xterm

[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 it not be useful to have this feature at least in some 
editors?

To produce those characters outside xterm one has to either find a character 
picker or switch to other keyboards such as French or German which I have 
programmed to do with just one click.

Regards
-- 
Peter

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Special Characters in xterm

[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:<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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