console characters/keyboard

[Glenn Dawson]

At 07:17 PM 12/7/2005, Aaron Peterson wrote:
>I have been working with a database recently that contained values
>with special characters.  A lower case "n" with a tilde over it for
>instance.  Anyway, during the conversion of the database from mysql to
>sqlite these special characters got corrupted.  I ended up fixing them
>by hand since there weren't many, but during the process I realized
>these things:
>
>1) My console does not print these characters, but empty box 
>characters instead
>
>2) I have no good way of entering these characters (that I know of)
>with my standard keyboard layout and language settings.
>
>So the obvious questions follow:
>
>1) Can I somehow alter my console or add fonts so these characters are
>displayed properly
>
>2) I ended up writing a perl program and giving it html entities to
>decode back to the special character and insert into the database, but
>this is very roundabout.  How can I set my FreeBSD box up to be able
>to enter such characters manually?

You can produce whatever character you like by using the alt key and 
the number pad.

Hold down alt and type the ascii value (in base 10) on the number 
pad.  When you release the alt key, the character will be sent as if 
it had been typed.  Note that this only works with the number pad.

-Glenn

>Thanks in advance for any assistance,
>Aaron
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