Xterm alternate keyboard chracters

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Hi,

every now and then somebody is asking how to access special characters such as
¿ ¾ ® º » ° ©. There are some programs with which one can produce them, however, I found it the easiest way for special characters is to use xterm.

In xterm pressing Alt or Alt/Shift gives a lot of extra characters. I then just mark them and copy them into the document I am working on. Since I had made a table for those characters with abiword I attach the file. Print it out and paste it on a cardboard to have it handy when needed. The upper row shows the standard US keyboard character, the secobnd row when Alt is pressed and the third row when Alt/Shift is pressed.

Hope somebody finds it useful

Regards

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Peter

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