How to enter unicode in F9

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Nov 9 14:35:38 UTC 2008


On Sunday 09 November 2008, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I just tried this, and I get presented with a
>>
>>
>> prompt.
>
>Can you clarify?  What shell are you using, and what kind of prompt did
>you see??  Did you paste exactly:
>
>uc() { /usr/bin/printf \\u$1; };
>
>as the first line and
>
>echo $(uc 2639)
>
>as the second?  You should see a smiley face (☹) for this example.
>
>Matt Flaschen

Except that is a 'frownie' as displayed here, and in this email.

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