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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:59:49 -0700
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 29.08.2024 04:07, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> On 29.08.2024 02:04, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>> If there's an easy way to type non-ASCII characters like '·' that
>>> works across different systems, including all the various terminal
>>> emulators used on Windows and Linux (as well as MacOS, but I don't
>>> happen to use it), I'd love to know about it. 
>> 
>> I don't think there can be a portable or consistent way to create
>> that character. Incidentally (I just tried a few keys) I can get
>> the '·' by typing "Alt GR" and ',' (on my DE keyboard). [...]
>
> Keith, what does your keyboard produce when typing <Alt>-<7> ?
>
> On my US keyboard it produces the '·'. Don't know whether that
> is reliable, though. (I don't think it is; e.g. my Thunderbird
> doesn't expand any character when entering <Alt> combinations.)

It produces the two-character sequence Escape 7.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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