Owen
Thanks for the advice. No luck though with the ctl-shift.
Scott G.
-------Original Message-------
From: Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 05/31/03 02:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [XFree86] Extended ASCII character input
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> 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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