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<p>Gnome Terminal is certainly Unicode-aware. What you probably want to do to make it easier to type characters not on your keyboard is to <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=debian+squeeze+compose+key">set up a compose key</a>. That is, you sacrifice one of your keys to be used to compose interesting characters. (Personally I use Caps Lock for this purpose, as I find I never use Caps Lock for typing capitals.)</p>
<p>Once you have a compose key set up, you just hit Compose, then "<", then "<", and you get "«". Or hit Compose, then "a", then "^", and you get "â". There are <a href="http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html">all kinds of useful characters you can type with a compose key</a>.</p>
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<small><small><tt>package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name</tt></small></small>
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