Re: Ascii character typeing

[B. T. Raven]

"Sonu" <sanjaykumar.barick@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> hi all, i want to know how can i type ascii characters, for example in
> windows i do this by typing ALT + xxx where "xxx" is the ascii code of
> the character. so i want to know how can i do this in linux, any help
> would be apreciated...
>

I suspect that you mean non-ASCII characters, i.e. those outside the range
32-126. In the msw os you can get the ! (bang) by typing Alt-033 but it
makes no sense. Shift-1 accomplishes the same thing much more easily. In
order to produce the most common Western European diacritical marks
(usually over vowels) use one of the dedicated input methods. To see how
these work, type Ctl-x ret Ctl-\ latin-1-postfix ret

Now many keypresses will generate the corresponding character but with an
underline. At the bottom of the screen (echo area or mini-buffer) you will
see additional characters that may be appended (postfixed) to the base
character in order to modify it in some way. Play around with input
methods for a while (instead of 'latin-1-postfix' hit TAB to see a hundred
odd other ones) and you will agree that this is the way to go.

Ed