typing pie from keyboard in vi

[Joep L. Blom]

Tony Pursell wrote:
> 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
>> -- 
>> Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. 
>>   --A.M. Greeley
>>
> 
> Tony
> 

Tony, nice solution. One small correction: it doesn't work in 
gnome-terminal (as I have tried).
Joep