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

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:40:53PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| * 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

Very interesting.  Though for "{" I wouldn't expect a square box.  If
I type "^V[enter]" I get a ^M (0x0D) inserted.  If I type
"^V[numpad-enter]" I get 3 bytes, 0x1b 0x4f 0x4d (shows as ^[0M
on-screen).  That was running vim inside of gnome-terminal.  In gvim
(version 6.0, both with GNOME gui self-compiled, and GTK gui deb
package) I get 0x0d inserted when entering "^V[numpad-enter]".

-D

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