Hi,
every now and then somebody asks how to produce special characters. May be little is known that 75 of them can be produced in xterm on a US keyboard by pressing Alt or Alt/Shift plus the character.
For example: � � � � � � � � � etc, etc.
If I need any one I copy in xterm and paste into a text editor or word processor.
In order to know where they are I just went through all the characters row by row copied and pasted them into abiword made them bold and anlarged. Printed the sheet out pasted it on a card board, so they are handy when needed.
Unfortunately the big linux distros try to hide this excellent terminal xterm. I guess in order to promote their own clumsier versions, just as Fedora will not even install anymore routinely mc, IMO the best file manager there is and I have tried quite a few. In KDE mc is installed, however, is not incorporated into the toolbar menu system. At least I can't find it there in slackware.
Just some thoughts.
Regards
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Peter
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- Special Characters in Xterm Peter H.
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