[Geany] inserting unicode characters

[John Gabriele]

On 8/27/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:32:53 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at 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.

Ok. Thanks. [see attached doc patch]

---John
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 in the preferences dialog, by default it is TAB.
 
 
+Inserting unicode characters
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+Various platforms may provide different ways of inserting unicode
+characters into your documents. On Gnome, for example, you can hit
+Shift-Ctrl-u, release, type some hex digits representing the code
+point for the character you want, then hit Enter or Space. For this to
+work in Geany, you'll need to first unbind that key in `keybinding tab
+in preferences dialog`_.  Note though, it works slightly differently
+in Geany, in that you'll need to continue to hold down the Shift and
+Ctrl keys while typing the code point hex digits.
+
+
+
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