On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Joe Smith <jes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For the past few years using Gnome on Fedora, I have been able to enter > arbitrary Unicode characters in any Gnome/Gtk application using Ctrl+Shift+U > followed by the character's code point as hex digits. > > I just upgraded to Fedora 13 which includes Gnome 2.30, and this handy > feature seems to have disappeared! > > I found some advice to use ibus instead, but so far I've not been able to > get ibus to do what I need without having it interfere with my normal > typing. I just need a quick way to type common symbols found in English text > (e.g. an em-dash). > > Is this an official Gnome policy, that ibus will be the only way to handle > input by code point? Or is it a Fedora issue? > > Is there any way to get the old behavior? > > Thanks for any suggestions or information. The Ctrl+Shift+U feature is an ISO 14755 compliance by the GTK+ input method. See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input I suppose that the IBus input method does not support ISO 14755. Since you use Fedora, have a look at the Fedora bugzilla on IBus (IBus is developed by a RedHat engineer and uses the RedHat bugzilla) for relevant bug reports. If you cannot find something on 'ISO 14755' in the RedHat Bugzilla, file a bug report. To answer your question on who to blame; this should be something that IBus should support in addition to the GTK+ library default input method. Normally you would use IBus if you want to write in complex scripts, notably Asian scripts. For anything Latin-based you can use a layout such as US English International, which allows to write characters such as äǵẽëēę··÷ṩłeđŋ”“nµ»«þø²¹€½¾. Simos -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
