Type ASCII

[Ian Malone]

Ian Malone wrote:
> On 14/09/06, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/14/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 12:28 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>> > > How do i type ASCII characters on Linux
>> > >
>> > > I know there is a man page man ascii
>> > >
>> > > But do i use it
>> >
>> > With a keyboard...  Perhaps you should say which character you're 
>> trying
>> > to type.  e.g. In many consoles you can type CTRL G to get the ASCII
>> > character (decimal character number 7) that usually pings the bell.
>> >
> 
>>
>> I didnot understand your mail and I could not do it also, For example
>> for character A
>>
> 
> How did you enter that 'A'?
> 
> Maybe what you want to do is enter arbitrary characters according
> to some codepage?
> 

Is this what you want to do?
<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input-keyboard.html#shortcuts>
Unicode entry shortcuts

"Note that you cannot use Shift-Ctrl-A-thru-F or Shift-Ctrl-0-thru-9 for 
your own purposes, as these combinations are used to enter unicode 
characters in text fields."

Alternatively: Applications|Accessories|Character map

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imalone