Alt+xxx characters

[Rick]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/5/5 Riana Carstens <carstensr at telkomsa.net>:
>   
>> I have a Dell Latitude notebook, but cannot get special characters by
>> using the Alt + xxx keys. I read a lot, got advice but no joy.
>> Anybody out there to help me??
>>     
>
> What special characters do you want? What is your keyboard character
> map? You likely need to configure the proper character map.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>   
It doesn't seem to work in 8.04, maybe not in Linux at all. Too bad. 
That's a useful tool. As a workaround, there's a panel applet called 
character palette. That can be used in between keyboards for 
multilingual use.
Rick