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Inserting a CENT current symbol in a unix file
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| Eldho Thomas 2004-09-10, 5:54 pm |
| How can I insert a CENT currency symbol in a unix file using "vi" ? Can
someone help me ?
Thanks.
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| Eldho Thomas 2004-09-10, 5:54 pm |
| Sorry ! I meant CENT "currency" symbol (in the subject)
"Eldho Thomas" <ReplyToGrp@Nowhere.com> wrote in message news:...
> How can I insert a CENT currency symbol in a unix file using "vi" ? Can
> someone help me ?
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> Thanks.
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| Kieran Simkin 2004-09-10, 5:54 pm |
| "Eldho Thomas" <ReplyToGrp@Nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:J0o0d.18542$0A6.10236@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Sorry ! I meant CENT "currency" symbol (in the subject)
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> "Eldho Thomas" <ReplyToGrp@Nowhere.com> wrote in message news:...
There is no cent symbol in standard ASCII. Best not use it.
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| Andrew 2004-09-10, 5:54 pm |
| Eldho Thomas wrote:
> How can I insert a CENT currency symbol in a unix file using "vi" ? Can
> someone help me ?
There may be a better way to do this, but here's a method that works.
$ echo "\0242" >/tmp/foo
Then use <esc>:r/tmp/foo to read the file (symbol) into the working text.
There is probably some key sequence to insert the symbol directly, but I
don't know it. Note that vi shows the escaped character sequence rather
than the symbol itself. But, it's there.
andrew@lod.com
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| Pascal Bourguignon 2004-09-10, 8:48 pm |
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"Eldho Thomas" <ReplyToGrp@Nowhere.com> writes:
> How can I insert a CENT currency symbol in a unix file using "vi" ? Can
> someone help me ?
Your question is meaningless. You have to specify the character set
and the file encoding you want!
(Here, with my emacs I just type: C-x 8 c --> ¢ which gives be the
cent symbol, IN THE EMACS BUFFER! It's far from being written into a
unix file. Since I configured my emacs to use the iso-8859-15
character set in plain binary with unix line terminator encoding to
write my files, when saving it I get a file of iso-8859-15 bytes. But
if I had specified UTF-8, or UTF-16, I would get quite a different file!)
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| Roger Leigh 2004-09-11, 7:49 am |
| "Kieran Simkin" <kieran@digital-crocus.com> writes:
> "Eldho Thomas" <ReplyToGrp@Nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:J0o0d.18542$0A6.10236@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com...
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> There is no cent symbol in standard ASCII. Best not use it.
Huh? On a modern system with UTF-8 locales, is there any good reason
to still restrict ourselves to US-ASCII? Or even ISO-8859?
For the OP: In a vi(m) buffer, I typed "Shift-AltGR c |", and got a
`¢' symbol. This also works in Emacs, with a terminal etc. The
keystrokes may differ depending on your setup, but you can always use
the UCS codepoint number.
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