From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Peter H." Subject: Special Characters in xterm Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:40:40 +0800 Message-ID: <20050120024040.B229C39D0D@heisspf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi, every now and then somebody asks how to produce special characters. May b= e = 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: =AE =BE =B2 =A3 =B0 =A9 =DC =EF =F1= 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 ro= w by = row copied and pasted them into abiword made them bold and anlarged. Prin= ted = 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 x= term. = I guess in order to promote their own clumsier versions, just as Fedora w= ill = 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 incorpo= rated = into the toolbar menu system. At least I can't find it there in slackware= =2E Just some thoughts. Regards -- = Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs