typing pie from keyboard in vi

[Tony Pursell]

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 03:51 -0400, Doug wrote:
> On 9/16/2010 3:28 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> > Is there a way I can type the mathematical symbol pie from my keyboard.
> > Recently one of the professional  networking website where I was logging in
> > asked me to enter CAPTCHA and in their security verification  image
> > they had given pie to be entered.
> > I do not use Windows to use any type of virtual keyboard.
> > Where in my US English keyboard I can do that.
> >
> How can anyone reading their website enter pi (correct spelling) if
> you can't even find it yourself?  However, you can find it in Unicode
> 
> Unicode Character 'GREEK SMALL LETTER PI' (U+03C0)

Type Ctrl-Shift-u, then 03C0 and Space or Enter. This seems to work
everywhere I have tried it. Hope it works with CAPTCHA.

You can look up the Unicodes in the Character Map

> 
> or, I think, U+03A0, for the capital letter, if I read the chart correctly.
> 
> Dig into the Unicode stuff in Google.  It's confusing.
> --doug
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>   --A.M. Greeley
> 

Tony