Re: Ascii characters without keys.

Shawn H. Corey wrote:
> Andy Civil wrote:
>> On this windows computer, I can hold down the {alt} key and dial in 
>> decimal on the numeric pad for characters that don't have keys, such 
>> as °, µ, £ and ½. It doesn't work on my Ubuntu computer. How do I do 
>> it? I have a friend that owes me £80, LOL!
>>
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu and GNOME.  It has an application, 
> Applications->Accessories->Character Map, which gives access to many 
> characters.  What version of Linux and what windowing environment are 
> you running?

Well thanks for answering in the middle of the night :-) yes, the application is 
there, it says (and I quote):

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£

U+00A3 POUND SIGN

General Character Properties

Unicode category: Symbol, Currency

Various Useful Representations

UTF-8: 0xC2 0xA3
UTF-16: 0x00A3

C octal escaped UTF-8: \302\243
XML decimal entity: £

Annotations and Cross References

Alias names:
  • pound sterling, Irish punt, Italian lira, Turkish lira, etc.

See also:
  • U+20A4 LIRA SIGN
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The application is great for rarely-used characters, where you're not going to 
remember the decimal/hex in any case; my question is really about the really 
common non-keyboard characters, where it's worth your while to remember the 
number to dial, to avoid having to resort to the application.

The windows character map tells you the key sequence; the Ubuntu one doesn't.

I was hoping that Linux had an equivalent "escape sequence" (non application 
specific) that caused the keyboard driver to issue a character that didn't have 
  a specific key combination.

-- 
Andy



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