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Date:      Wed, 1 Jan 2003 12:30:43 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters
Message-ID:  <20030101103043.GB5445@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212311901280.19126-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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On 2002-12-31 19:02, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Danny Horne wrote:
> > Subject: Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters
> > > Is there anyway to get e.g. a u with an umlaught over it (ASCII
> > > 159 I think) in a text emailer like pine or mutt, if your
> > > keyboard doesn's have said character? How about text editors
> > > like nedit?
> >
> > Not sure what an umlaught is, but you can find a list of ascii
> > codes here - http://www.asciitable.com/
> >
> > 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?

It works fine on the consoles.  I'm not sure what the proper
configuration options would be for the same to work under X11.

- Giorgos

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