[ale] Unicode character entry in Edgy (Was: Re: Ubuntu Edgy? Anyone?)

[fd0man™—The Magical Floppy Man]

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 12:08 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> On Sun September 3 2006 1:44 pm, fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man wrote:
> > Is anyone here using Ubuntu Edgy?
> >
> I just installed it on a test server.
> added firefox Bon Echo 2.0b1
> 
> amazing, forecastfox installs on it, but still not seamonkey.
> 
> I'm not into Unicode, give me an example and I'll try it.
> 


For example, in Dapper, if you pressed Ctrl+Shift+2122 (and then
released Ctrl+Shift), you would get the Trademark mark.  Ctrl+Shift+3c0
(that is a zero) is the Greek small letter "pi" that is commonly used in
mathematics.  Ctrl+Shift+201C is open quote, 201D is close quote.  In
Edgy, if I attempt to type the Trademark mark, I get nothing.  (Also, in
Dapper, when you typed the unicode Code Point number, it would show up
as you type it, usually with an underline to show that you were actually
entering a Unicode character and not something directly into the
application.)

Somehow, it is just not enough that I can type things like ? and ? and ?
and ? on my international keyboard... :-P.  No, seriously, though,
having the "proper quotes" and the em dash, and pi, are entirely worth
it.  I just do not seem to know how to get that behavior back, though...

    -- Mike

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