On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:05:16AM -0800, Neil Parker wrote: > >What I have done in the past is to hold the ALT key down and enter the > >decimal value on the numeric keypad (with the num-lock key off). I just > >double-checked this, and it works under OS/2 and Windows (in simple text > >editing programs), but not under Linux. At least, it didn't work here > >under Thunderbird, under Kate (an editor), or in a text-mode editor > >(joe). A pity, that was a handy way of getting characters from the > >line-drawing set into a text file. > > The ALT-numberpad method is a Windows-ism...I'm unaware of ANY Linux > software the recognizes it.
One which console-tools can be made to emulate in the console. I don't know that X can be, but I would assume it's possible. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
