Re: [Geany] How to type non-breaking space and soft hyphen in geany

Hello,

I just found how to replace ALT + UNICODE in Ubuntu It's by CTRL + SHIFT + U + UNICODE.

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9666010#post9666010

The difference is that in Windows I had to insert the decimal value (160) while here I have to insert the unicode itself (00A0)

See http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/A0/index.htm

I just did it and it works great. So at this point I'm just wondering if there's any easier way to insert it by using a shortcut in Geany like in ooo writer It's quite hard to remeber CTRL + SHIFT + U + 00A0 instead of CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE ;)

Thanks in advance for any tip Luca

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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:13:49 +0200 From: Luca Borrione write@tiscali.it To: geany@uvena.de Subject: Re: [Geany] How to type non-breaking space and soft hyphen in geany

Hi,

I still have to find a keyboard with a non-breaking character in it! :)

I think there is a misunderstanding: I don't have to type * * (which is the html entity) .. I need the character itself. I wrote it only to be more clear, apparently without luck :)

Any editor has to deal with special characters:for example in Word you have to press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR to type a non-breaking space.

Have a look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211887

Open office does the same: if you open your libreoffice/openoffice writer you will find this shortcut looking at Tools > Customize > Keyboard > Insert > CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE

Furthermore in Windows to deal with it, you can (in any editor) press ALT + UNICODE of the character you need. In this way pressing ALT + 0192 leads you to insert a capital A with grave accent (which in html entity is À) If I remember right the unicode for a non-breaking space character is 160, so by typing ALT + 0160 I would have inserted it in Windows.

Have a look at http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html

If there's no way to insert it with a Geany shortcut, is there any ALT + UNICODE equivalent in Ubunutu? I'm on a Lubuntu 11.10 box by the way.

Cheers Luca

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