Re: control+shift?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 14:00 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:50:12PM +1000, Daniel James wrote:
> > With gnome 2.14 I was able to hold control and shift and then type a
> > utf-8 number and it would insert the utf-8 character. Now with gnome
> > 2.16 it seems to be gone. Does anyone know how to get this behaviour
> > back? I am using Edgy (Ubuntu).
> 
> I thought this was in the release notes (not sure).
> 
> Type: CTRL-SHIFT-U, then the UTF-8 characters.
> 
> This was changed to avoid stealing so many keys (16) from an
> application.

Yeesh.  I wish people would tell the HIG maintainers when they make
changes like that :)  (Or even ask them first...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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