Tell me more ×  On windows I have always used the "ALT+3" for
creating a wonderful heart for expressing my love...  Is there a
way to do this on Ubuntu?  share|improve this question add
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Ctrl+Shift+U 2 6 6 5 Enter  Control-capital-u means Unicode, and
the four-digit hexadecimal number for a "black heart suit" (or
any other Unicode character) can be found via the Character Map
in Ubuntu (gucharmap).  share|improve this answer With compose
keys, you can type an em-dash by using Compose Key + - followed
by two - –  steabert Apr 5 '11 at 5:52 Having Compose is
excellent, only really available out-of-the-box on a Sun Sparc
Type 4/5 keyboard (which are incidentally the best layout
keyboard I've ever used, and I continue to use a Happy Hacking
Keyboard as a result). Unicode hexadecimal will work out-of-the-
box, without the user having to reconfigure their keyboard
layout first. –  sladen Apr 5 '11 at 18:46 That worked well,
thanks. ♥ –  Pablo Apr 12 '11 at 4:59 I g