Is there any way to type special characters on the arduino serial monitor?

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I wanted to type in things like \f or \t or other characters like I could in strings. Is there any way to do that? Thanks.

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I am using the serial monitor, not writing a program on arduino.

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The Arduino serial monitor is useful but very low on features and functions avalible. There are several PC terminal progams that will display and send in hex or other methods. Some allow setting up a macro string that you can then send with a simple button, or send a text file. I use Brey Terminal on my Windows machine:

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That is one of the short comings of the arduino serial monitor, I wish it had a mode where it would display the hex of the character received as well as sending characters defined by hex.

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Thanks guys. I was trying to videotape myself using a serial panel over the arduino serial monitor. I'll just termite or another terminal software then, although using the arduino serial monitor should be friendlier to newbies.