special chars in gedit?

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Kevin Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>:

> 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?"

yes, just now. Got one hit, the archive of this message.

Dave

>
>> 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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