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

[Alex LeDonne]

On 9/8/06, fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man <fd0man at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 19:28 +0000, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>  ctl-shift-2122 also works in Fedora Core?  <- :)
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>  LOL :)
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>  Would that not be Fedora? Core?  :^)
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>  Anwyay, I am glad that I found the workaround, though I do not yet understand the reason for the change.  I keep trying to type using the old sequence, and I keep getting beeps and unexpected output, but I will adapt.  :-P
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>      ? Mike

I think the reason for the change is simple - under the old way, it
occupied 16 keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl-Shift-0 through Ctrl-Shift-F. I'm
sure that, in particular, Ctrl-Shift-A through Ctrl-Shift-F conflicted
with application and other shortcut keys. Plus, that's just plain
hogging - 16 shortcuts taken up for a single feature. Under the new
way, it's Ctrl-Shift-U, which is much easier to develop around, and
frees up those other 16 shortcuts for other uses.

-A