Re: How to easily input special characters? (encoded in UTF-8)

[Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net>]

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 08:11:56 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

>> 
>> A quick apt-cache search reveals that there are character selector
>> utilities for both Gnome and KDE in the following packages:  gnome-applets
>> and kcharselect,
> 
> The original examples were not from Latin-1, and if I recall correctly,
> the two applications you mention here are only for Latin-1. 
> 
> I think a good start in addressing the question would be the document,
> Unicode-HOWTO. For example, with respect to xterm, "Newer versions
> (patch level 146 and above) contain support for converting keystrokes
> to UTF-8 before sending them to the application running in the xterm,
> and for displaying Unicode characters that the application outputs as
> UTF-8 byte sequence. It also contains support for double-wide
> characters (mostly CJK ideographs) and combining characters."
> 
> 

Thanks, Haines, like I said, I had no idea whether the char-mapping apps
were any good.

Thanks for your pointers also, this is something I also need to grapple
with myself sooner or later.

-- 
....................paul

Programming without a hex editor is like watchmaking without a hammer.