On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:32:53 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000(a)gmail.com> wrote: As I told you I didn't forget about this but did some testing. And finally, the solution so very simple ;-). Just unbind Ctrl-Shift-U in the preferences editor, restart Geany and you are done. The restart is necessary because of the menu item mnemonics which are set by default. But after the restart of Geany, Ctrl-Shift-U should work. Just press Ctrl-Shift-u, then keep Ctrl and Shift pressed down and type u264d and hit Return.

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:32:53 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000(a)gmail.com> wrote: unicode then hit è, As I told you I didn't forget about this but did some testing. And finally, the solution so very simple ;-). Just unbind Ctrl-Shift-U in the preferences editor, restart Geany and you are done. The restart is necessary because of the menu item mnemonics which are set by default. But after the restart of Geany, Ctrl-Shift-U should work. Just press Ctrl-Shift-u, then keep Ctrl and Shift pressed down and type u264d and hit Return.

On 8/27/07, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven(a)btinternet.com> wrote: > On 08/27/2007 12:02:35 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:32:53 -0400, "John Gabriele" > > <jmg3000(a)gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I'm using an american keyboard with Geany, but have recently > > > been wanting to type in some unicode characters. > > > > > > [...] > > > After a bit of searching, I found that the common way to get > > unicode > > > characters (with Gnome anyway) is to hit Shift-Ctrl-U, release, > > then > > > type in the hex digits representing the unicode code point, then > > hit > > > Enter. This works nicely on Gedit, and in Firefox too: for > > > example: > > è, > > > é, ê. > > As I told you I didn't forget about this but did some testing. And > > finally, the solution so very simple ;-). > > Just unbind Ctrl-Shift-U in the preferences editor, restart Geany > > and you are done. The restart is necessary because of the menu > > item mnemonics which are set by default. But after the restart of > > Geany, Ctrl-Shift-U should work. > > > > Just press Ctrl-Shift-u, then keep Ctrl and Shift pressed down and > > type > > u264d and hit Return. > > > I find on my system (Fedora 5, Xfce 4.2, Gtk 2.8, LANG=en_US.UTF-8) > I don't need to type ctrl-shift-u, just hold ctrl-shift whilst > typing the unicode numbers. > Also, what does the d mean in u264d - for me I can press any key, > e.g. right arrow after typing the numbers and the unicode char is > inserted. If I type 'd' then the unicode char followed by 'd' is > inserted. > > I just thought - that trailing d is for decimal, right ;-)

I'm not familiar with Xfce, but holding down Shift-Ctrl and then just typing hex digits seems odd to me, since it wastes an awful lot of available key combos (ex. Shift-Ctrl-{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f}).

Also, the nice thing about the Gnome way is that, since you don't have to hold down the Shift and Ctrl keys, it frees up your fingers to type the hex number.

OK, thanks. Guess I was confused with the Alt-nnn numeric keypad bindings for extended ascii characters.