Hi Tony; Sounds like you are taking the same trip I did. On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 16:09 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 1:51 PM -0500 1/14/06, William Case wrote: > >Hi; Just checking through my old email and came across this question. > > > >It is something I have wanted to know for a long time. > > > >On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:16 +1030, Tim wrote: > >> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:43 +0800, Hanny Tidore wrote: > > > >> And if you know the number of the unicode character that you want to > >> use, there's ways to enter them in that way, as well. > >> > >> -- > > > >Believe it or not, I have looked for this answer on and off over several > >months and have not been able to find it. > > > >Well, what is the way of entering a character by unicode number? > > I googled on "vi unicode numeric" and didn't like the results, so I googled > on "vim unicode numeric" and found a Wikipedia entry as the first result. > It suggests using CTRL-V in vim, and ":help i_CTRL-V_digit" to find out > how. <CTRL-v>uffff in INSERT mode inserts a character with the unicode > value 0xFFFF. > > Note that I don't use vim. I don't know how to do this in vi. I don't use vi or vim either. Mostly I use emacs, gedit or OO.org. But you would think there would be an universal accelerator key for an universal code -- eh? Regards Bill
