Getting The Euro Symbol On A U.S. Keyboard

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Sat Jul 16 08:42:07 EDT 2005


Ah, I don't think the Euro is included in the ASCII code. Am I wrong?
Did ANSI make a change to ASCII and I missed it?

Thomas Stivers writes:
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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:21:37 PM -0500, Garrett Klein wrote:
> > My advice would be to use the ascii code... although I know that's
> > probably not what you were looking for. Speaking of obscure
> > characters, is there any way to get accented letters without having to
> > remember ascii codes under Linux?
> 
> If you use vim check out the help for digraphs. This will do what you
> want. I'm sure there is a way using emacs as well, but I'm not familiar
> with it. I kind of doubt if nano or pico has this functionality, but I
> haven't worked with either in a while, so who knows what they've added.
> 
> - -- 
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> 
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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