AltCar + Num (special characters)

[Derek Broughton]

Mitch Contla wrote:

> 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.
>>   
> 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.
> 
No, it really depends how you're configured.  That's not a default.
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derek