☠☢ UniCodes in Linux - Special Characters - gucharmap
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✌lol ✌
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@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.
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@ConchX It is the code point specified which has no glyph asociated in the requested font.
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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
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WOW thanks man :) ... I always wondered how people did it ... now that I know... its going to be fun ♞
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nice title.................
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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.
starcubeuk 1 month ago 2
@starcubeuk: Good to know. Thanks.
metalx1000 1 month ago
Thanks I installed it, I have a question, why do some characters have boxes with letters inside them? What does that mean?
Thanks :)
ConchX 1 month ago
@ConchX: I'm not sure.
metalx1000 1 month ago