Re: Character-mode charmap applet

John Cowan wrote:
> Here is a trivial but convenient program for people who are using X terminal
> windows (like me) with the U.S. ASCII-only keyboard (like me).  By holding
> down the right-hand Alt key you can get the non-ASCII Latin-1 characters, but
> the scheme is non-mnemonic.
>
> In Windows you can use the charmap applet or the U.S. International keyboard
> (I switch between U.S. and U.S. International when I'm on Windows).  The
> utterly trivial Perl program I've attached prints out the Latin-1 characters
> in a sensible order, with their hex equivalents.  Each character is surrounded
> by two whitespaces so that it will go into the X selection if you double
> click on it, and you can then paste it anywhere using the middle mouse button.
> The program is meant to be run in an Xterm window or the equivalent.
> (Non-X folks, please excuse all this.)
>
> Anyway, some of you may find it handy.
Very handy, thank you! I'd been hunting for some sort of documentation
on how to get extended characters in X Windows...

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