Special Characters in Xterm

Hi,

In the terminal Xterm one can produce special characters by pressing Al=
t + key=20
such as

Alt 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =3D \ q gives
=B1 =B2 =B3 =B5 =B6 =B7 =B8 =B9 ° =AD =BD Ü =F1

and many more.

This can only be done with xterm and not in any other terminal, various=
=20
editors or word processors.

Why is that? Would it not be useful to have this feature at least in so=
me=20
editors?

To produce those characters outside xterm one has to either find a char=
acter=20
picker or switch to other keyboards such as French or German which I ha=
ve=20
programmed to do with just one click.

Regards
--=20
Peter

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