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Re: Unicode Character key-in problem



Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:43:13 -0700
> Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:
>
>> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:45:06 +0000 (UTC)
>> > Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > ...
>> >
>> >> In GNOME, you can get it by pressing "Ctrl+Shift+u" and release the keys. 
>> >> You'll get an underline "u". Then you have to type the desired characters 
>> >> sequence, i.e., for currency sign type "00a4" and press "enter":
>> >> 
>> >> http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html
>> >
>> > General GTK thing; I do it on my XFCE system.
>> 
>> General X11 thing;  they can all be done at the command line.  A full
>> list for UTF-8 is at /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose, and
>> similar for other locales.
>
> I don't usually use X without GTK, but I was relying on this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#Hex_input

Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys.  I haven't figured
out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD).

-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org


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