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Re: How to insert ASCII chars?



On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:02:44PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Is there some tool that would allow me to bring up an on-screen chart of
> ASCII chars, such as the smiley faces and fraction characters and
> line-drawing characters, and then copy them for pasting into an X app?
> 
> (Goal: to insert a musical note character into a Netscape Messenger
> message.)

man ascii
man iso_8859_1

	¶®³©

...though in your case, some symbols you're looking for aren't part of
the standard character set.  You may need to be able to specify a font
such as WinDings.

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