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

[James P. Kinney III]

Jeez... At least play with it :)

???? ?
That should mess up the mutt users :)

Hmm. Can't seem to get the ctl-shift sequence to work right with
anything that starts with a leading "0" (zero). It puts it in as a ")"
but then still inserts the correct code. Must be a pango bug.

For those dying to know the code sequences:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/


On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 15:27 -0400, William Fragakis wrote:
> 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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