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Producing a specific ASCII character in Ubuntu

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Mar 15, 202676717 views
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I'm used to holding the left Alt and entering the ASCII character whenever I'm using an unknown keyboard configuration and want to type a special character. For example, Alt + 0 + 9 + 2 makes a backslash (\). That's on Windows. Is there a way to do this in Ubuntu? Note: I also want to be able to us…

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If you are using Gnome (stock Ubuntu does) you can do that by holding down both the Ctrl and Shift keys and typing followed by the hexadecimal value of the character. To produce the backslash , you would hold Ctrl + Shift and press U, 5 and C. On Wi…

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