From: Boris Kortiak (boriskor_at_boriskortiak.com)
Date: Sat Nov 15 2003 - 22:53:58 EST
Are you entering symbols only or something different? If it is something
different, please provide information about what you are doing.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Jacobi [mailto:pj_at_walter-graphtek.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 5:34 AM
> To: abiword-user_at_abisource.com
> Subject: Input method for Unicode characters
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering whether I missed to find a method to input Unicode
> characters into AbiWord (I'm using 1.99.6 on W2K).
>
> As was already discussed, "Insert Symbol" tends to hang on exotic fonts.
>
> And in addition, it works only for the broken and definitievly 20th
> century
> method of special characters mapped to the Latin-1 codepoint range.
>
> I.e., when I choose "Code 2000" in "Insert Symbol" only the first 256
> codepoints are shown, as in "Code 2000" the special characters are on
> their true Unicode position.
>
> I've just found out about a standard feature of the RichEdit control,
> which
> is unbelieveably usefull:
>
> <cite>
> A handy hex-to-Unicode entry method works with WordPad 2000/XP, Office
> 2000/XP edit boxes, RichEdit controls in general, and in Microsoft Word
> 2002. Basically you type a character's hexadecimal code (in ASCII),
> making
> corrections as need be, and then type Alt+x. Presto! The hexadecimal code
> is replaced by the corresponding Unicode character. The Alt+x is a toggle,
> that is, type it once to convert the hex code to a character and type it
> again to convert the character back to a hex code. If the hex code is
> preceded by one or more hexadecimal digits, you need to "select" the code
> so that the preceding hexadecimal characters aren't included in the code.
> The code can range up to the value 0x10FFFF, which is the highest
> character
> in the 17 planes of Unicode.
>
> The only problem with this approach is that some programs use Alt+x for
> something else (like quit) or the keyboard doesn't have direct access to
> ASCII alphabetics.
>
> It's not patented, so anyone can use it :-)
> </cite>
>
> Any developers reading this? Any chance to get something similar?
>
> Best Regards,
> Peter Jacobi
>
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