From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 1 8:47:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFE737B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 08:47:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 595E643EA9 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 08:47:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 26E4D4FC8A; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:30:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AEC4A0E for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:30:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:30:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters In-Reply-To: <20030101103106.GC5445@gothmog.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Subject: Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters > > On 2003-01-01 00:34, Danny Horne 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