Alt+xxx characters

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:09:07PM +0200, Riana Carstens wrote:
> I have a Dell Latitude notebook, but cannot get special characters by
> using the Alt + xxx keys. I read a lot, got advice but no joy.

You can enter any Unicode character with Ctrl+Shift+u.  For example, to
get ☃ ("SNOWMAN"), hold down Ctrl and Shift and type "u2603".

Marius Gedminas
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