Putting a unicode character into a terminal window (or even into OOo)

[Dave Feustel]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 02:41:42PM +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Under Worm, if I press alt-132 I end up with an umlaut a. This doesn't
> work under OOo 3 or in a terminal window. How can I get the same result
> under Linux?
> 
> I should know this, but for some reason....
> 
> My system is set as UTF-en_GB.
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul
> -- 

Install lots of unicode fonts.
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