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

[Michael T. Sullivan]

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?

In GTK+ based programs like Gnome Terminal or OOo 3 you can type 
Ctrl+Shift+U followed by the Unicode hexadecimal code terminated by a 
space. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input> for other 
situations.