Special Character in Ubuntu 20.04 Server OS

Solution 1:

The simplest way to access the section sign character would be to SSH into the machine and paste it from the remote machine, as many SSH clients support copy/paste. If you need to do this from the server itself, then you can press Ctrl + Shift + U to trigger the Unicode character input mode, then the hex code of the section sign, which is 00A7.

You can read more about special character entry on the Tips & Tricks site and find hex codes on CompArt 👍🏻

Solution 2:

This mostly depends on how you have configured your keyboard. I have my keyboard configured with a DIN 2137-1:2012-06 T2 layout, and there, it is ⇧+3. On a keyboard configured with the EurKEY layout, it is the dead key AltGr+\ followed by s.