Re: Typing characters with byte value greater than 0x7f.
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:01:53PM +1100, James Steward wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have searched for some time now for a method by which I can enter
> characters from (say) ISO 8859-1 in X applications. In essence I would
> like to insert a "DEGREE SIGN" into an email for example. Anyone using
> codepage 437 on windows or ISO 8859-1 in Linux should see a ? (I hope
> you see it too ;-) I believe.
>
> Now I realise I can achieve this using KCharSelect, but is there a
> keyboard only way? Similar to Alt-176 for example?
>
> I have tried wading through the multitude of google hits but cannot seem
> to find an answer.
I have a similar question -- how to enter arbitrary unicode characters.
My system is configured (to the extent I've been able to do it) UTF-8
only, but I still have only the usual characters on my keyboard, and
don't know, for example, how to enter hiragana.
-- hendrik
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