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Old 10-29-2009
How to insert greek characters in to vi editor
Hi,


I want to test a unix file by inserting greek characters in to vi editor.
Can anyone please suggest how to insert greek characters in to vi editor.
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Old 12-28-2009
Did you find the answer to this issue? I always learnt that a combination of Alt or AltGr should be used and then some code consisting of digits. Can't find any resource and the closest I came on the web is this: Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Using UTF-8 with Gentoo
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Old 12-28-2009
Press alt and the ascii number of the charecter like 254 and release alt
■ (254)
ⁿ (252)
╥ (210)

etc...
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