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The thing is that I can't even paste these characters in my terminal, only the local terminal. So it's a more general problem.
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gnome-character-map
gnome-character-map(1) User Commands gnome-character-map(1)
NAME
gnome-character-map, gucharmap, charmap - insert special characters into a document
SYNOPSIS
gnome-character-map | gucharmap | charmap [--font=string] [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
The Character Map application enables you to select characters from a character table, then combine the characters into a text string with
standard characters. You can insert the text string that you create into other applications, such as text editor documents.
Character Map provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the characters are not
available on a standard keyboard.
Note: The gucharmap application also provides a library called libgucharmap. This library is licensed under GPL. Please see the license
file at /usr/share/doc/SUNWgnome-character-map/COPYING.bz2 for implications when writing a program which uses this library.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--font=string Specify the font name and point size that you want to use to display the characters in the character table, when
you start Character Map.
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Character Map
example% gnome-character-map
Example 2: Launching Character Map With Specified Font Name and Point Size
example% gnome-character-map --font="bitstream vera sans italic 20"
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gucharmap
Executable for Character Map.
/usr/bin/charmap
Symbolic link to gucharmap.
/usr/bin/gnome-character-map
Symbolic link to gucharmap.
/usr/share/doc/SUNWgnome-character-map/COPYING.bz2
Location of license file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-character-map |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
bzip2(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)
Character Map Manual
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/
NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, updated by Halton Huo, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2007, 2008.
SunOS 5.11 16 Sep 2008 gnome-character-map(1)