Entering keystrokes above 127 witht the keyboard.

From: Mark Healey (die_at_spammer.die)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:30:06 GMT

I'm slowly moving from OS/2 to linux. With OS/2, when I need to enter a
character that doesn't have a key I would just alt-keypad-xxx with xxx
being the ascii value of the character.

How do I do it in linux?

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