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Back in the day with a numeric keypad you could type Alt-(number) to get any ASCII character, but not sure if that still works. In Firefox apparently Alt-1 tak

• Terretta 13y ago
  Alt-(3 digits)
• BorgHunter 13y ago
  In most graphical *nix environments that I'm familiar with, if you hold Control and Shift¹ and type U, you can type any Unicode character by its (hex) code point. For instance, if you want an em dash, which is U+2014, hold Control and Shift, and type "U2014". ¹You can release Control and Shift after typing "U", in which case the character will appear after you type a space. Or, you can hold Control and Shift while typing the code point, in which case the character will appear after you release either modifier key.
  • pjbrunet 13y ago
    I just tried in Debian, works! Very handy.
• chinpokomon 13y ago
  On Windows yes, just proceed the number with a 0 to get Unicode. See the "How to enter Unicode characters in Microsoft Windows" page [1] for more details, including one of my favorite tricks, using Alt-X in WordPad. It is especially useful when you want to know what the code point is for a Unicode character. [1] http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm
• T-hawk 13y ago
  Turn on Num Lock and it still works, including in Firefox.