Access of special characters

Gnome comes with a character map that is identical to the one in Windows.


On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:21:20 Robert N. Eaton wrote:
> Anyone?
>
> I would like to call up and print on screen some of the iso 8859-1
> characters, i.e. the eth, thorn, the digraph ae, etc. To do that in
> windows I could have gone to the character map and pointed and clicked,
> or I could have used the numlock, alt+0208 for the cap eth, and so on.
>
> I have looked up charmaps, man ascii, man iso_8859_X, etc, and I still
> have no idea how to set about doing it in Linux. KDE Help gave me tons
> of reading on related subjects, but I didn't find anything exactly to
> the point.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Bob Eaton
>
>
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