[TriLUG] ASCII Characters

Mike Mueller mjm-58 at mindspring.com
Wed Jul 24 11:10:02 EDT 2002


What's the application?

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:51, Jeremy P reputedly wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> > Is it possible to type (to stdout, in a console or otherwise) the
> > special ASCII characters, like how in Windows systems you can do ALT+161
> > for an upside down bang?
>
> Actually, your subject line is misleading.  ASCII characters are from
> 0-127 and do *NOT* include the "extended" characters of the iso-8859-1
> (Latin1) character set to which you are referring.  There is no reliable
> way to type these on Linux; there are "softkeys" you can set up in X, but
> I have never understood how to make them work properly.  Hopefully someone
> else can provide a better answer, but I wanted to make sure you realize
> these characters are NOT a part of ASCII.
>
> --Jeremy
>
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