On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:57:41 +0000, "Earle Martin" <hates-softw...@downlode.org> wrote:
On 15/12/06, Aaron Crane <hate...@aaroncrane.co.uk> wrote: > A. Pagaltzis writes: > > Any gtk+-based apps will accept characters typed as hexadecimal > > Unicode code points while holding Ctrl+Shift. Even works in a Firefox > > linked against gtk+. > > Until you upgrade to a newer version; it recently changed to "hold > Control+Shift+U while you type the Unicode codepoint".
I cannot hold down that key combo and also type a codepoint! The keys are way to far apart to type that with one hand and leave the other hand to type the codepoint which I cannot remember anyway. WTF invented this combo?
Ȳ <- hey, it works! Now I just have to memorize lots of inscrutable multi-digit numbers. Hooray for progress! Control-shift-U is also an extremely fucking awkward "shortcut" if there ever was one.
You could also modify you `Compose' file to include letter combo's you can remember. Now just hope your application uses the Compose, and is not (statically) built around some dark old Qt or gtk+ lib that doesn't read it -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0 & 10.1, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
