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I am running Ubuntu 14.10, and I would like to enter characters from the console using hexadecimal code. To do this, I am using the combination Alt+ Shift+u+Hexcode. On my computer this works fine until Ascii character 127, but entering a value above will result in a character different from the extended Ascii table. For example, Alt +Shift+u+FF results in a y with two dots above. This is not the correct value from the ASCII table. I guess I need to configure my character set, but I don`t know how. I only found foreign sets like hyroglyphs. How can I ender ASCII characters from the extended Ascii set?

Best regards,

Thomas

Eranda Peiris
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Thomas Harper
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According to this table in wikipedia the character corresponding to ASCII 255 or 0xff is 'ÿ'. However I produced this character with Ctrl-Shift-u followed by 'ff', not Alt-Shift-u and 'ff'. (After entering Ctrl-Shift-u, an underligned u appears, then continue typing the hex code and terminate with Enter to get the coded character.)

muclux
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  • That is interesting, I thought this was the extended ASCII table : http://asciiset.com . Are there different sets? Can I somehow change the table? – Thomas Harper Jun 07 '18 at 20:22
  • This is interesting, I thought this was the ASCII table http://asciiset.com . Are there different ASCII tables? – Thomas Harper Jun 07 '18 at 20:24
  • The page you linked says itself that there are different versions for the extended table. I suppose it's a matter of encoding, see locale. – muclux Jun 08 '18 at 06:29