special chars in gedit?

[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 04:40:11PM -0800, 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 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

in Unicode, the math division symbol is code point 00F7 (decimal 247).

To enter that into a document using gedit, hold depress CTRL-Shift-U,
let go of those keys and type "00f7", and once you hit, say, a space
character your divide sign will appear, as if by magic.

You can find the appropriate Unicode charts at: http://unicode.org/charts.

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