Allegedly, on or about 14 December 2014, Rolf Turner sent: > Struggling with this and don't know who else to ask .... > > I have just found out how to produce accented characters when typing, > e.g., an email, via <ctrl><shift>u<code> where "<code>" is the > unicode hex number for producing the desired symbol. E.g. > <ctrl><shift>ue9 produces e-acute. > > Fine. Except ... any hex numbers that involve "f" result in a "find" > menu popping up --- instead of the character I want being produced.
Once you've typed CTRL+SHIFT+u, let go of control and shift, just type the hex numbers in with no other keys held down. (Works for me...) Though, I prefer the compose key method. If I want to type æ, for example, I hit the compose key (I configured it to use the, generally, useless right-side windows key), then type ae. For all sorts of characters, you type the compose key followed by either their obvious combinations ae for æ, oe for œ, et cetera, or characters plus similar looking punctuation a' for á, a` for à, u" for ü, etc. It's easy to work out most of the obvious ones, the rest I'd need a cheat sheet. But I'd need a complete cheat sheet for every unicode character, there's no way I'd remember more than one or two of those code numbers. Both entry systems work at the same time (for me), I'm configured for using the compose key, never did anything to configure it to allow the numeric entry key. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. ZNQR LBH YBBX -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
