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Special characters and the ASCII/ISO panelSpecial characters and the ASCII/ISO panel
Select ASCII/ISO table (Windows menu, Shift Ctrl A) to open the ASCII/ISO table panel. It gives an
overview of the character set associated to a window.
- Click on a character to insert it into a text window or panel.
In binary windows, the hexadecimal code will be inserted
instead.
- Choose a different target window using the pull down menu.
ALTERNATIVE METHODS
Other methods to get characters not available on the keyboard are:
- Hold down the Alt key, type a decimal ASCII
code on the numerical keypad, and release alternate, or press the
Enter key. The character corresponding to the ASCII
code is inserted into the text.
- Note that the codes are not the same as those on an
MS-DOS computer.
- To find the code for a character, open
the ASCII/ISO table panel, and point at the character with
the mouse. Its decimal, hexadecimal and octal representations
can now be read at the bottom of the panel.
- For those who know what it means, any keysym can be typed.
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Press the multi-key or compose key, then enter an accent
followed by a letter. Accent keys are quotes, dashes, commas.
- The compose key must be defined for this to work. On
some keyboards, this is the scroll lock key.
- For this and the next option, only the ISO Latin 1
character set is currently supported.
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Press a dead key followed by a letter.
- these dead keys, which correspond to accents, must be
defined on your keyboard (see xmodmap (1)) for this facility to work.
- There are preset shortcut sets
that offer shortcuts for commonly typed special characters. For
example, in the set latin1.preset, an a with an
accent grave is obtained by entering an a followed
by a backquote and Escape. There are shortcut sets
for 6 ISO Latin character sets.
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