Re: OT: What does this symbol mean §

[Matt Graham]

From: Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com>
> CTRL+Shift+O = © (copyright symbol)
> CTRL+shift + 3 = page number
> CTRL+SHIFT+6 = §
> CTRL+SHIFT+7 = ¶ (paragraph symbol?)
> CTRL+SHIFT+8 = • (a bullet point)
> 
> Are there other symbols that are commonly accessible from a standard
> 108 keyboard?  Where can one find a table listing and describing such
> symbols?

/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US/Compose contains a list of all the char
combos you can use to get non-keyboard chars in the en_US locale.
You have to have a Multi_key defined somewhere to use these, and your
locale has to be set to something other than C.  I like to use the
right Ctrl key, so I do

xmodmap -e 'keycode 109 = Multi_key'

on X startup.  Then I can do things like Multi_key + ' + e = e with
acute accent , Multi_key + s + s = es-tset (looks like a beta, used
in German), Multi_key + " + vowel = vowel with umlaut[0], Multi_key
+ ~ + vowel or n = char with tilde over it, Multi_key + = + C =
euro symbol, and tons of others.  The Compose text files contain all
the stuff you need.

[0] There is, however, no support for putting umlauts over an n.
This part of the charset does NOT go to 11.

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