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

William Fragakis william at fragakis.com
Fri Sep 8 15:27:40 EDT 2006


Cool... Evolution in Fedora 5 does work with these key combos.

The things I learn

regards,
William

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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> in Edgy, kmail does nothing when I type CTRL-SHFT-2122
> Evolution also does nothing.
> 
> 
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> Paul C
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