special chars in gedit?

[Kevin Cummings]

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....

Are you asking about the Extended ASCII character 246?  ÷  That would
require an 8-bit encoded character set to display properly.

Have you googled "how to enter extended ASCII characters in gedit?"

> installed gedit-plugins and character table is enabled in preferences
> but I don't see anywhere in the gedit screen to get into the table to
> select characters. Ideas?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

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