On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 16:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello
> I am trying to input characters from the extended ascii codes in a Linux/XFree86
> 4.02 environment (such as holding the alt key and typing 248 on the number keypad to
> produce the degree symbol). I am trying this on two different Sony Vaio notebooks
> (so the number keypad is activated by the Numlock) running SuSE 8.1 but cannot make
> it work nor find any clues in the docs about doing this.
> Has anyone made this work?
A) "extended ascii" is a MS-DOS'ism, and isn't likely to be supported
most operating systems. Generally, most operating systems
these days (including recent versions of Windows), use the much
larger Unicode (also known as ISO-10646) character set.
B) There is no general method of entering Unicode characters
in X that will work for every application. For applications
based on the GTK+-2.x toolkit, you can typically do:
<control><shift><unicode hex value><release control/shift>
Regards,
Owen
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