Software How to do special characters in the tty terminals ?


PowerGod

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When I use a terminal outside of the the Window Manager, with CTRL+ALT+F3 for example, all the special characters are not working, the ones you get with the "Fn" button pressed.

How can I type them ?

I'm especially missing the tilde and mostly the pipe :(

Is this something that could be solved with some future patch ?

(By the way, I love to be finally able to switch terminals like this... on the Pandora it was so tricky...)

EDIT:

After playing a bit with the keys I'm starting to find how to do some of them, but are in weird positions:

~ = Fn+Shift+1 (or every other number less than 9)
? = Fn+Shift+.
+ = Fn+Shift+Z
_ = Fn+Shift+X
| = Fn+Shift+B (FINALLY !!)

... at some point I will try to find all the others
 
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i can't even always do special characters in window managers. so i have stuff like this in my bashrc:
Code:
export GBP=£
I know. I should be shot.
 
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