typing pie from keyboard in vi

[Tony Pursell]

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 13:09 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
 
Does in mine.  It was one of the things I tried. Maybe you haven't got
the same LANG or GDM_LANG environment as me (en_GB.utf8).  I'm not
really an expert on this stuff.  Perhaps someone will put us right.

Tony