ASCII characters insert removed. Why?

[Sgruttendio Felippo De Scafato]

As a teacher and long time user of Bbedit, I have always found very useful
the "insert character" functionality of the "ASCII Table" Palette. It looks
it's gone both in BBedit and in TextWrangler (I really don't understand
what harm it did where it was). Now I wonder: is there a way to insert a
given (non printable) ASCII character in a text file (obviously without
resorting to the terminal)? I didn't find any substitute for that
functionality until now.

Thanks for your answers

Felippo
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[François Schiettecatte]

Couple of ways to do this:

- use the Character Viewer in the menu bar, you can enable it using Systems Preferences => Keyboard => Input Sources => Show input menu in menu bar

- You can also use UnicodeChecker ( http://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/index.html ) but you have to copy-paste.

François

As a teacher and long time user of Bbedit, I have always found very useful the "insert character" functionality of the "ASCII Table" Palette. It looks it's gone both in BBedit and in TextWrangler (I really don't understand what harm it did where it was). Now I wonder: is there a way to insert a given (non printable) ASCII character in a text file (obviously without resorting to the terminal)? I didn't find any substitute for that functionality until now.
Thanks for your answers
Felippo
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[Tom Robinson]

The same palette can be brought up with Edit > Special Characters (in BBEdit and every standard Mac application).

It's incredibly handy:



Cheers

Post by François Schiettecatte
- use the Character Viewer in the menu bar, you can enable it using Systems Preferences => Keyboard => Input Sources => Show input menu in menu bar

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