I’ve been using Linux for almost three years already and I wasn’t able to find a decent way of typing the enye character. In Windows, it’s just as simple as using the Alt+164 combo for enye in small caps and Alt+165 for capital enye. I searched a lot about this before and I found none that provides the same ease of typing these characters in Linux. I knew there has to be an easy or similar way to do it and guess what, I was right! I found out that unicode characters can be entered easily by pressing Shift+Ctrl plus the hexadecimal value of the unicode character that is to be typed.
So for capital enye (Ñ), it’s just typing Shift+Ctrl+D1 and for small enye (ñ), just type Shift+Ctrl+F1. There you go! Problem solved!!! Never thought it would take me these long to discover this!
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Woohoooooo!
nice.. been searching for this too. how bout typing Ññ on text-based editors i.e. vi?
jessie
That I haven’t found out yet. Apparently, linux CLI doesn’t use UTF-8. I did some experimenting by saving a text file containing Ñ and ñ using a GUI text editor then tried it opening it with vi. Guess what, vi did not display the character correctly. I also tried saving a file with ñ in the filename and the character displays fine on GUI file managers but when I did a ‘ls’ on the command line, it just displayed ?? in place of the ñ. Anyway, when I find out, I’ll post it here.