John Jordan wrote:
I have been using Gentium which is coded correctly. But the only
way to enter characters is via Insert Special Character in
OpenOffice.org Writer, or via Character Map. If I could create a
custom keyboard I could have a couple hundred characters
assigned to the different keys.
You can type a Unicode hex value directly while holding down
Control and Shift.
I.e. to get "cyrrillic capital letter i with macron" Ӣ 0x04E2 do:
press control and shift
type 4
type e
type 2
release control and shift
This works in gnome-terminal, gedit, firefox.
It does not work in the KDE's Kate or konsole, at least when
running them in a Gnome environment.
It works in OpenOffice.org 1.8.125, but a little differently:
The "character replacement" doesn't happen until you type the
following character.
You can also use the "compose key", which I have set to "Right-Alt",
which uses tables to combine characters using various mnemonic
combinations.
For example: The Icelanding "Latin capital letter thorn" þ 0x00DE
can be typed thus:
press compose (e.g. right-alt)
type t
release compose
type h
Unfortunately the compose tables have slight differences between Gnome,
KDE, and plain-old-X applications. (I would also like to figure out a
way to tweak them, to make the Norwegian characters, which I use most
often, use single-letter combinations. I got that working for plain-X
applications like Xterm - but I hardly ever use those. Any suggestions
for how to tweak the Gnome compose tables?)
--
--Per Bothner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.com/
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