At 6:12 PM -0500 1/14/06, William Case wrote: >Hi Tony; > >Sounds like you are taking the same trip I did. > >On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 16:09 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: >> At 1:51 PM -0500 1/14/06, William Case wrote: >> >Hi; Just checking through my old email and came across this question. >> > >> >It is something I have wanted to know for a long time. >> > >> >On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:16 +1030, Tim wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:43 +0800, Hanny Tidore wrote: >> > >> >> And if you know the number of the unicode character that you want to >> >> use, there's ways to enter them in that way, as well. >> >> >> >> -- >> > >> >Believe it or not, I have looked for this answer on and off over several >> >months and have not been able to find it. >> > >> >Well, what is the way of entering a character by unicode number? >> >> I googled on "vi unicode numeric" and didn't like the results, so I googled >> on "vim unicode numeric" and found a Wikipedia entry as the first result. >> It suggests using CTRL-V in vim, and ":help i_CTRL-V_digit" to find out >> how. <CTRL-v>uffff in INSERT mode inserts a character with the unicode >> value 0xFFFF. >> >> Note that I don't use vim. I don't know how to do this in vi. > >I don't use vi or vim either. Mostly I use emacs, gedit or OO.org. But >you would think there would be an universal accelerator key for an >universal code -- eh? The "universal" way in X (or just FC?) is to set up a Compose key (Keyboard Preferences -> Layout Options; I set "Menu is Compose"), and then you can type accented characters by typing a suitable punctuation mark with the compose key down and then the unaccented character. This often takes me several tries, and it only does your basic western accented characters. I don't know of a "universal" way to type unicode in hex. There's also the Character Map accessory, which allows for searching by hex or other aspects of the character. (And a big "Hi!" to MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and also to jrhw who won't get this message.) ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
