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

[Luca Borrione]

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 at tiscali.it>
To: geany at 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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Luca Borrione <write at tiscali.it>