James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
I've tried to find the check mark symbol in Linux (rh - various versions
now) and have had no success. I can't even find approximations of it
(including the square root sign). Is there some extra font I would have
to download to get this? Or are the check marks in Linux just really
well hidden?
Relevant Unicode character names are
U+2713 check mark
UTF-8: 0xE2 0x9C 0x93
U+2714 heavy check mark
UTF-8: 0xE2 0x9C 0x94
U+221A square root sign (aka radical sign)
UTF-8: 0xE2 0x88 0x9A
Getting them recorded (encoded) or displayed somewhere depends on
various things.
Assuming
- you are running Xwindows, and your system has /etc/sysconfig/i18n
containing something like
-------------------------------------------
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
--------------------------------
(verified by typing
locale
and seeing
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
..and so on..
-and you have a recent Linux distribution with iso10646 fonts,
then you can get your shell terminal to display by cutting and pasting
from the Accessories > Character Map application on the menu, or by (say)
echo -e '\xE2\x9C\x93'
echo -e '\xe2\x9c\x94'
echo -e '\xe2\x88\x9a'
That completes the proof-of-concept <heh>.
You can also demo the concept by hexediting into a file or,
by echo -ne '\xE2\x9C\x93' >checkmark-utf8, and then something
like cat checkmark-utf8.
I don't do this too much except for html, ..but.. if you are composing a
document, then the document presumably has a way to specify the
character encoding. And you can cut-n-paste as above.
Now, I'm sure there are other ways to get input into a document
(perhaps: IIIMF/XIM/successor, just now coming-out) -- but we're
going to need to appeal to someone with more expertise than I have.
Wherever the document gets displayed and/or printed must, of course, be
configured to expect the document to be encoded in UTF-8.
==> Alternatively <==
I'm sure you can do this in other unicode encodings (eg, UTF-16), as
well as non-unicode choices such as one of the 8859 sets or one of the
windows codesets.
I remember in whendoze95 being able to find (and use) a few check marks
from the character mapper. But in the documents I pulled from over
there, the check marks didn't survive. Well, that's not true. The
character survived, that is the hex code stayed the same, but the
appearance of a check mark had vanished.
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