Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:30:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301011127240.19268-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20030101103106.GC5445@gothmog.gr>
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Subject: Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters > > On 2003-01-01 00:34, Danny Horne <danny@clifftop.net> wrote: > > >> I find holding down 'Alt' & typing in the number of the character works > > >> for me (though I don't use Pine or Mutt). > > > > > > Didn't wok for me in pine or nedit, although this may be charset > > > dependent. Which apps does this work for you in? xterm? > > > > I don't use any Unix / Linux MUA's, it works for me in Squirrelmail (webmail > > app) & Outlook Express. > > > > Just tried it in the Joe text editor & it works fine on standard ASCII > > characters, but produces unpredictable results trying to use extended ones. > > That's probably because joe(1) shows ASCII characters 128-255 in its > own special way when you don't fire it up with the -asis option. > Running it with `joe -asis' or enabling the same option in your .joerc > file should work fine. > Thanks for all the suggestions. One thing I've learned from it is that it varies from app to app and also with font/charset. Oh well, I expected it to be non-trivial. Taking a hint from XChat, I wrote a little C app that spits out the ASCII character I want, then I just copy/paste it into the app I'm using. Doesn't work everywhere, but it's somewhat consistent while running X. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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