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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:17:22 +0200
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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.)

Janis