It looks to me as though U+A723 is actually not supported by
Liberation Sans or Serif and that a font replacement is happening,
although no font replacements are specified in my Options >
LibreOffice > Fonts. I don't know how to identify which font is
actually being used for the character. (LO 6.0.4.2, Windows 7)
- Robert
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018, Gary Collins wrote:
Thanks for reply, alt+X is exactly what i need. The font in question
(liberation sans/serif) as i say *does* have the characters but i still cant
seem to get them in the special chars dialog.
Thanks
/G.
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On Fri, 28/9/18, Regina Henschel <rb.hensc...@t-online.de> wrote:
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] insert unicode char in writer
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 28 September, 2018, 11:52
Hi Gary,
Gary Collins schrieb am 28-Sep-18 um 11:51:
> Hi
> I would like to be
able to insert some unicode characters into writer doc but
cant find a way to do this directly.
Type U+0161 and then press Alt+X, for example.
Alt+X is a toggle. You
can use it also to
look, which code a character has.
Insert special char doesnt seem to be able to
find the chars i want, but
maybe i'm
not doing something right.
The special character dialog works, but you
need to know which font has
a glyph for the
character. Otherwise the character will not be shown in
the selection pane.
I have
a workaround using calc; i can enter the hex codes as text
(row
1) and (row 2) use a formula
=UNICHAR(HEX2DEC(A1)) filled acrosd
adjacent column and finally copy row 2 and
paste as unformatted text
into writer. This
works but is rather longwinded to say the least. It
does show that its not a problem with the font
or with writer's ability
to display the
required chars; its just that i'd like a way to enter
them directly into the writer documext.
> The chars in question were hex A723, A725,
1E25, 1E2B, 1E96, 0161 (this one i *could* use insert
special char), 1E6F, 1E0F.
> Build
1:5.2.2-0ubuntu2.1
Have you looked, whether Ubuntu has a direct
input method? On Windows it
is possible to
use the numpad for direct input, although I prefer the
U+hexnumber method of LibreOffice.
Kind regards
Regina
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