Re: Typing special characters

[William Case <billlinux rogers com>]

Hi;

I apologize if this seems to hijack someone else's thread but I think it
is a related question.

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 06:47 -0500, Diego Escalante wrote:
> I use Control+Shift+U, release, then type the number and press space.
> 
That works for me too.  Now, I would like to bind a particular code to a
specific key or modifier + key (eg. Super + y = ctrl+shift+u2714); how
would I do that in gconf-editor metacity?
> 
> On 1/25/07, Daniel James <daniel netbreeze com au> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 00:49 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > > I just upgraded my Ubuntu Dapper amd64 to Edgy amd64. Previously in any
> > > application I could type Ctrl+Shift plus a hex code and it would type
> > > the Unicode character for that hex code. E.g., to get a schwa, type Ctrl
> > > +Shift+1DD.
> > >
> > > Since upgrading to Edgy this no longer works in any application. I am a
> > > student of linguistics and I really need this capability. What
> > > happened, and how can I fix it?
> >
> > Same thing happened to me! The new method is:
> >
> > <alt>+<control>+u<code>
> >
> > Daniel
> >
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Regards Bill