[solved] Re: special chars in gedit?

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Quoting Doug <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On 01/20/2015 08:28 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote:
On 01/20/2015 07:40 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
I need to use my notebook keyboard to insert a divide symbol, the kind
with two dots and a horizontal line, it's ascii character 43 decimal. I

According to *my* ASCII table, character 43 (decimal number 43) is a '+'
sign....


You can get that ÷ character with the compose key: compose :-
How do I know that? I bought the book "Compose Key Sequence Reference Guide"
by Sander van Geloven. Looks like it was published by Hellegaard, a
Dutch outfit. I forget where I got it, but either Amazon or O'Reilly
is the probably source.

--doug

The answer I was looking for was to enable the side view pane with F9 then try all the special language groups until checking Common and the symbol I wanted was in there. A double click inserts it in the document.

Dave


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