Making unicode characters on a US keyboard

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/12/16 Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com>

>
> On 12/15/2013 8:30 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> In some OSen there's a way to make arbitrary characters, even on a
>> limited keyboard.
>>
>> Right now I'm wanting to use some of the characters from Latin-1 in
>> chat rooms that have no special provision for this, and I only have a
>> USA keyboard.  I can cut-and-paste the characters, but that's super
>> clumsy.  I like to keep my fingers in one spot.
>>
>> Is there a way to do this on Linux?
>>
>> I'm on Xubuntu 13.04, if it matters.
>>
>
> Just type in the Unicode number for the symbol you want after typing in
> Ctrl + Shift + u.
>
> For example, Ctrl + Shift + u then U00A1 results in an inverted
> exclamation mark.
>

No. Ctrl+Shift+u 00A1 (or Ctrl+Shift+u 00a1). Skip the U.


If you are using the Opera web browser, you use Ctrl+Shift+x instead, and
you enter it AFTER the code:
00a1 Ctrl+Shift+x
Then 00a1 is replaced with ”¡”.



Johnny Rosenberg


>
> This is equivalent to doing Alt + 0161 that you may have learned from
> Windows Character Map.
>
> Memorize a list of your most often used symbols' Unicode numbers, and
> you'll be ready to chat.
>
>
> Ken
>
>
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