Special Characters in xterm

Hi,


every now and then somebody asks how to produce special characters. May b=
e =

little is known that 75 of them can be produced in xterm on a US keyboard=
by =

pressing Alt or Alt/Shift plus the character.


For example: =AE =BE =B2 =A3 ° =A9 Ü =EF =F1=
etc, etc.


If I need any one I copy in xterm and paste into a text editor or word =

processor.


In order to know where they are I just went through all the characters ro=
w by =

row copied and pasted them into abiword made them bold and anlarged. Prin=
ted =

the sheet out pasted it on a card board, so they are handy when needed.


Unfortunately the big linux distros try to hide this excellent terminal x=
term. =

I guess in order to promote their own clumsier versions, just as Fedora w=
ill =

not even install anymore routinely mc, IMO the best file manager there is=
and =

I have tried quite a few. In KDE mc is installed, however, is not incorpo=
rated =

into the toolbar menu system. At least I can't find it there in slackware=



Just some thoughts.


Regards


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Peter


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