This will give you a print out of most of the characters you'd need... might
redirect it into a text file so you can save it for later and just copy and
paste the character when you need it...

perl -e 'for($i=32;$i<=255;$i++) { print $i ,  " = " .  chr($i) . "\n"}'

Regards,
Mike Cantrell


----- Original Message -----
From: <datawolf@ibm.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: My 2¢ was Re: Linux Programmer


> All I do is have an html table of all the special characters (8-bit
> ASCII), and just copy and paste.
>
> -BVG
>
> "Mark R. Myers" wrote:
> >
> > In a Linux program, such as Netscape, KMail, or others, how does one put
in
> > characters that are not on the keyboard?
> > For example: In Windows (please no flames), in order to get the cent
symbol
> > (¢), one needs to hold down Alt+0162 on the numeric keypad.
> > I have tried this in KDE and it does not seem to work.
> > Is there a way of gettting this functionality in KDE/X ?
> > Thanks!
> > Mark
> >
> > > my .02 cents
> > > Carl Parrish
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> > > ComputerPREP.com
> > >
> >
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