☠☢ UniCodes in Linux - Special Characters - gucharmap

[amb1402]

✌lol ✌

[AlexFromHowest]

gucharmap => "Gtk+ Unicode Character Map". And @starcubeuk: Windows and Linux/Unix both use Unicode... But there are many implementations of Unicode. Linux/Unix mostly uses UTF-8, windows uses god-knows-which implementation

[technosesh]

WOW thanks man :) ... I always wondered how people did it ... now that I know... its going to be fun ♞

[starcubeuk]

Kris, the reason we have a larger chart is because Linux generally uses the Unicode character encoding system. Unicode uses 16-bits per character, therefore you can have 2^16 possible characters. Windows uses ASCII which uses 7-bits per character with an 8th bit for error checking or an extended keyset. Unicode contains all the ASCII codes too, so it really is the superior character encoding scheme.

[metalx1000]

@starcubeuk: Good to know. Thanks.

[TheLolipro]

nice title.................

[ConchX]

Thanks I installed it, I have a question, why do some characters have boxes with letters inside them? What does that mean?

Thanks :)

[metalx1000]

@ConchX: I'm not sure.

[gasto5]

@ConchX It is the code point specified which has no glyph asociated in the requested font.

[RealityIsAnOpinion]

@ConchX the characters in the box are the same as the code to make the unicode character. I'm guessing then that it's a placeholder in case the symbol is missing from the system?

That's just a guess though.

[refa42]

I recently needed to type a degree sign and found out that there are all sorts of fun symbols I can use (mostly those common symbols). I tested these on a IRC channel and as you said, those who view it needs to have unicode support, so less advanced IRC clients just show them as boxes. I'm not going to spam channels with these but it was a fun experiment.

If you use search in gucharmap you can type in symbol and find out what it is, or search symbol with a keyword. Thanks 

[vladimirFNX]

gu = graphical user char map? maybe