Howto type the euro sign and other special chars from a US keyboard?

[Patrick]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 03:18, Cam wrote:
> Patrick
> 
> With xmodmap you can change what symbol is produced from a given key. If 
> you just want to enter a symbol you can hold down ctrl-shift and type 
> the unicode number of the character in hex. eg.
> 
> euro ctrl-shift-2-0-a-c
> sterling ctrl-shift-a-3
> o umlaut ctrl-shift-f-6
> 
> You can use the character map from the accessories menu to look up 
> characters and codes.
> 
> There are probably other ways...
> 
> -Cam

Hi Cam,

Thanks. Worked like a charm.

Regards,
Patrick