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

[fd0man™—The Magical Floppy Man]

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 13:38 -0400, Alex LeDonne wrote:

> 
> When it's every app, first check for info on your window manager.
> 
> A google search for
> gnome nautilus unicode input ctrl-shift
> http://www.google.com/search?hs=hK4&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=gnome+nautilus+unicode+input+ctrl-shift&btnG=Search
> 
> Yielded first hit:
> http://www.gnomefiles.org/version.php?soft_id=370
> Which includes:
> "Version: 2.10 - Released on 2006-07-03 07:16:18 UTC
> * The hexadecimal Unicode input feature has been reworked. It no
> longer blocks the use of the sixteen Ctrl-Shift- key sequences. Now
> it only uses Ctrl-Shift-u."
> 
> Try Ctrl-Shift-uXXXX, where XXXX is the hex code.
> 


Ooh, that works (in most apps, anyway...)!  It does not seem to work in
xterm or Emacs for GTK, though... oh, well.  I can go back and add
proper formatting with another text editor after the bulk of my text has
been written.  :-)

Thanks!

    ? Mike

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