Re: Weird characters question

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:49:57 +0100 (MET)


From: Canul Podkopayeva <canul7@yahoo.com>

I'd like to know if one can make weird charcters under Linux without
having to use a C program to search a file for a certain string and
replacing it with chr($num) [under perl]. etc...

Under Windows95 this is done by holding the alt key + a number
combination.

And how do you find the answer?

By trying perhaps: let me see .. press Alt, type 161 on the numpad,
release Alt: ¡, an inverted exclamation sign, for those using Latin-1.
But that would require imagination and courage...

Or by reading the docs perhaps? Let us look at the Keyboard/Console HOWTO:

8.5. Composing symbols

One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes.

o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad,
followed by LeftAlt-release, yields the symbol with code given by
this number. (In Unicode mode this same mechanism, but then with 4
hexadecimal digits, may be used to define a Unicode symbol.)

...

No, that would be too easy. Pollute linux-kernel, that must be it!

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