On 12/13/2014 10:56 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 14/12/14 14:04, Jim Lewis wrote:
Struggling with this and don't know who else to ask ....
I have just found out how to produce accented characters when typing,
e.g., an email, via <ctrl><shift>u<code> where "<code>" is the unicode
hex number for producing the desired symbol. E.g. <ctrl><shift>ue9
produces e-acute.
Fine. Except ... any hex numbers that involve "f" result in a "find"
menu popping up --- instead of the character I want being produced.
/snip/
If you solve the "f" problem Unicode will work, but it's so much of a hassle!
You will have a tough time memorizing all the possibilities, or you'll have
to print out a table and look up everything all the time. I'm sure you can
set up a COMPOSE key in Fedora. If it's not in the printer setup, you may have
to Google it, but it's one of the nice features of Linux. When you have a
Compose key, you make accented characters and quite a few others using simple
key combinations that are fairly obvious, and you don't have to memorize or
look up the codes. (There are a few special characters you may have to look up,
which you can do by Googling compose characters.) Anyway, for an accented e,
you hit compose, then ' then e. Like this: é. If you want the Italian accent,
you hit compose, then ` e like this: è. You can do it with all the vowels,
and make other diacritical marks, like the French ç. German umlauted vowels
and the ess-tset: ß. (That's compose s s .) Or 75°F. Or £35. or 25¢.
And a whole batch of things that you don't have to look up. Even fractions:
½ ⅔ ¾ ⅚ and § (That's control s o) The degree sign is Compose o o .
And the Greek µ (Compose / u ) You'll never have to look up Unicode again!
--doug
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