AltCar + Num (special characters)

[Mitch Contla]

François Rousseau said the following on 02/15/2007 11:29 AM:
> Hi,
>
> In Windows, we can do "left alt + num key" to get some special
> character.  I search a way to do something similar in Linux Ubuntu
> 6.10, ideally the same thing.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
> François Rousseau
>   
I don't know about 6.10, but in Dapper Ctrl+Shift+<unicode> achieves a
similar result. For example, if I want an em dash, hold Ctrl+Shift and
type 2014 on the keypad.

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Mitch