[Geany] inserting unicode characters

[Nick Treleaven]

On 08/27/2007 10:34:05 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:02:10 -0400, "John Gabriele"
> <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 8/27/07, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at 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 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.
> > > >
> > > 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 ;-)
> No, as John told it's part of the unicode character. 0x264 is ɤ and
> 0x264d is ♍.
> 
OK, thanks. Guess I was confused with the Alt-nnn numeric keypad 
bindings for extended ascii characters.

> [...]
> This isn't a Gnome thing but a GTK thing. The behaviour changed in 
> GTK
> 2.10. Before, in GTK 2.6 and 2.8, you had only to press Ctrl-Shift 
> and
> type the hex number, since GTK 2.10 you have to type Ctrl-Shift-u to
> get it working. It's a GTK feature, not Gnome. One of the reasons for
> changing the behaviour is the waste of keybindings which John
> mentioned
> above.
> 
It makes sense now ;-)

Regards,
Nick