Alt+xxx characters

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:59:06PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/5/7 Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt>:
> > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:09:07PM +0200, Riana Carstens wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > You can enter any Unicode character with Ctrl+Shift+u.  For example, to
> > get ☃ ("SNOWMAN"), hold down Ctrl and Shift and type "u2603".
> 
> ☃
> 
> Hey, it works!
> 
> This will be fun, as my native language cannot be represented in
> ASCII. Ctrl + Shift + 5 characters for every letter I want to type!

*blink*

That's why keyboard layouts were defined -- so you could type in your
native language without too much pain.  Do you mean to say that you used
to press Alt + 3 characters for every letter you wanted to type?

Marius Gedminas
-- 
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
                -- Bill Harlan
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