How to enter high-ascii chars in a Linux editor?

Kropotkin · 11-23-2004, 02:29 PM

Hi all,

How does one enter high ASCII and/or control characters in a Linux editor (I use gedit mostly but also gvim sometimes). Under DOS/WIN/OS2, one could use Alt-### for this purpose, provided you knew the ASCII number. What is the equivalent under Linux?

Thanks.

nhs · 11-23-2004, 04:21 PM

I don't know of a generic method for all character codes however you may want to look at enabling the compose key. The command "setxkbmap -option compose:rwin" will use the right windows key as a compose key. With this enabled the sequence RWin,a," produces ä. AltGr can also be used with a number of keys to generate symbols. Unfortunately I don't know of a document which lists all the combinations so some trial and error is required to figure out what does what.

Kropotkin · 11-23-2004, 04:39 PM

Actually, I have so-called "dead keys" activated with the Gnome Keyboard program, so I can enter many accented characters -- but not everything.

nhs · 11-23-2004, 04:45 PM

In that case I have no idea. Sorry.

Kropotkin · 11-27-2004, 10:28 AM

I solved this partially. Under Preferences/Keyboard, there is a tab page, Advanced Layout Ooptions, where one can define the right Alt as a "compose" key for entering accented characters, like 'ç'.