Re: Gnome fonts, squares -- no, not the usual ;)

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

* dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) [011217 13:00]:

> On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 07:32:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> | on Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:06:53PM -0500, Hall Stevenson
> (hallstevenson@mindspring.com) wrote:
>
> | The 'square' is generally just an unprintable character. You might
> | be able to paste it to another window and get the hex or octal code
> | that way.
>
> You can try pasting it into vim. Run vim and enter insert mode, the
> press ^V, then paste the character. The ^V allows you to escape
> special characters. When you have the character in a buffer, "ga" will
> display the decimal, hex, and octal values of the character.

Here's what it tells me:

<{>  123,  Hex 7b,  Octal 173


Regards
Hall