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Hello,

I do have a little issue here and Google doesn't give me any solution @this moment.

In HP UX Vi editor: I want to place this character: ®

I copied it from internet or for example Word Special Symbols. But how do I paste it in Vi?

Many thanks in advance
Sincerely,

Arjan

Can you display it in with vi? If so, can you get it into a file, all by itself? If we call this file RTM (for Registered Trade Mark), then you could open the file that you wish to insert it to and:-Hopefully that will do it.

Depending on your display font (mine is vt100 emulator) you might get away with this to generate your file RTM:-

Code:

echo "\0256" > RTM

This will display the character for ASCII octal value 256. An alternates you could try is character 656.




I hope that this helps.


Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

Hello Robin,

Thanks for great solution. Could you please share with us how we can see/check ASCII table any commands for same, I will be grateful to you on same.


Thanks,
R. Singh

Do you want something to display all the characters?

If so, you can:-

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
i=0;until [ $i -ge 8 ]
do
   j=0;until [ $j -ge 8 ]
   do
      k=0;until [ $k -ge 8 ]
      do
         echo "$i$j$k=\"\0$i$j$k\""
         ((k=$k+1))
      done
      ((j=$j+1))
   done
   ((i=$i+1))
done|strings

Some implementations may prefer print to echo

If this isn't what you were after, I'm afraid I've missed intended the question. Can you elaborate?




Robin

Thanks.

You replied:

"Can you display it in with vi? If so, can you get it into a file, all by itself? If we call this file RTM (for Registered Trade Mark), then you could open the file that you wish to insert it to and:-"

But I can't display it in Vi. When i copy and past ® it displays a dot (.) in Vi. So I cannot create a file named RTM.

With Regards,

Arjan

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This works fine though

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This works fine was a answer to your script.

Great. Glad to be of help.



Robin

Sorry.. Unix.com was struggling with me.

Thanks.

You replied:

"Can you display it in with vi? If so, can you get it into a file, all by itself? If we call this file RTM (for Registered Trade Mark), then you could open the file that you wish to insert it to and:-"

But I can't display it in Vi. When i copy and past ® it displays a dot (.) in Vi. So I cannot create a file named RTM.

With Regards,

Arjan