Access of special characters

[Robert N. Eaton]

Thanks, Shawn, I thought it was just me. I tried the alt+ method both at
the bash prompt and in vi.  No luck.  Maybe if I contacted KDE??  I'm
told Gnome has a character map a la Win9X, but as of this incarnation,
I'm using Caldera Open Desktop 2.4, which does not feature Gnome.  I
guess I'll have to wait until the 2.4 kernel comes out in new
distributions, with upgraded windowing and KDE2.1, etc.

Bob Eaton


"Shawn T. Rutledge" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:14:30AM -0700, Robert N. Eaton wrote:
> > Thanks for the tips, but what I have in mind is, as I know the octal,
> > decimal, and hexadecimal addresses of the special character, how can I
> > access that address from the keyboard?  So much _is_ possible: why
> > shouldn't that be? Or do I have to be in C++ mode to do it?  (I do as
> > little code as necessary ;-))
> 
> An old trick that used to work in DOS was to hold down Alt and then
> _quickly_ type the 3-digit decimal ASCII code on the numeric keypad,
> and then release Alt.  I don't know if it works in Linux; might be a
> keyboard firmware thing, or a DOS thing, I'm not sure which.
> 
> If you only want to view the entire codepage, try this:
> http://gw.kb7pwd.ampr.org/rusdict/codepage.phtml
> but it attempts to get the browser to use the KOI8 codepage.  Netscape
> usually isn't smart enough to do that, unless you take extra steps;
> so you'll probably see European characters instead of the Cyrillic
> ones.  You can save the HTML and then you'll have a page you can use
> as a reference.  And, you can select a character with the mouse and then
> middle-click to paste it into anything.
> 
> Note that shells usually don't accept extended ASCII characters without
> magic incantations which so far have escaped me (err, maybe I need to
> escape them, or something); the ones that are reported to work don't
> work for me, and I'm not sure if it's because Gnome-terminal isn't
> being cooperative, or what.  It works in some versions of vi, but other
> versions will escape those characters.  Nedit also works well.  GTK
> text fields accept them with no problems too.
> 
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