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

[James P. Kinney III]

ctl-shift-2122 also works in Fedora Core?  <- :)

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 13:13 -0400, fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 12:48 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: 
> > On Fri September 8 2006 12:24 pm, fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man wrote:
> > > 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.)
> > 
> > are you talking as if you are typing in an email client compose 
> > message, like evolution or Kmail?
> > 
> 
> Any application - including the terminal (both xterm and
> gnome-terminal).  It should work system wide, as it did in Dapper.  I
> have used it in GAIM, Firefox, Evolution, gnome-terminal, xterm,
> python's interpreter, emacs...
> 
> > doesn't it depend on the font you are using?
> > in my Kubuntu 6.06 in Kmail, when I type CTRL-SHFT-21 I get the "!" 
> > exclamation point.
> > 
> 
> That is because Unicode character 21 is the "!" character.  ;-)  The
> first 127 code points match with ASCII, so the expected ASCII
> characters should be created.  The code point entry is in hexadecimal.
> 
> > in Edgy, kmail does nothing when I type CTRL-SHFT-2122
> > Evolution also does nothing.
> > 
> 
> That would be my problem.  The system does not seem to permit Unicode
> entry directly anymore.  :-/
> 
> I just put in a bug about it (https://launchpad.net/bugs/59543)
> because it seems like it would be a bug.  An example:  my e-mail
> signature below was typed into Evolution under Dapper.  I would not be
> able to type that, now, though.  The TM and em dash cannot be entered,
> and those characters are not present on the international keyboard.
> The International keyboard does save me from entering a lot though (it
> would be really annoying to have to type r?sum? by entering the
> Unicode code points for ?... though on Windows you have to do
> something similar, using ALT+Windows Char Code or (ALT)+(+)+(Unicode
> code point) with a registry hack...
> 
>     -- Mike
> 
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