☠☢ UniCodes in Linux - Special Characters - gucharmap

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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: Good to know. Thanks.

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

    Thanks :)

  • @ConchX: I'm not sure.

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  • ✌lol ✌

  • @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.

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

  • 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

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

  • nice title.................

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