On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 14:04 +0100, Michael Brandt wrote:Hi, > 2006/1/14, William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > Well, what is the way of entering a character by unicode number?> > > When using GNOME you can produce any unicode character in the following way: > > 1. hold down shift and ctrl > 2. type unicode-sequence, e.g. "00FC" for "ü" > 3. release shift and ctrl > > This method is even a standard (ISO 14755) > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/ISO-14755.pdf Thanks for the tip. I keep forgetting how to do that. One remark: this method does not work in Evolution on FC4. Try doing shift-ctrl-OOFC in Evolution and you will get a find/replace dialog. Would be nice if it worked in Evolution too (ideas welcome :). Regards, Patrick