How can I insert a CENT currency symbol in a unix file using "vi" ? Can
someone help me ?

Thanks.

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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 ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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"Eldho Thomas" <ReplyToGrp@Nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry ! I meant CENT "currency" symbol (in the subject)
>
> "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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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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"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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"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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