Ctrl-Shift hex code

[jimw]

Just a while back, someone on the OpenOffice users list was talking about inputting Unicode by doing Ctrl-Shift hexcode. It seemed to me that I'd been once told that was not possible.

 

However, I gave it a try. It doesn't work.

 

I can get the appropriate results in gedit, or in Thunderbird.

 

I can't on Kwrite, Kword, or Open Office.

 

I'm using Mandrake 10.0

 

I don't know enough about Linux in general to say what kind of problem I'm looking at, but I have a feeling the answer is buried in some part of the manual somewhere.

 

Anybody give me a pointer?

 

JimW

 

[moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

[jboy]

This is from the OpenOffice 2.0 User Guide (available for download in PDF format):

 

Inserting Special Characters

 

This is how to insert special characters (such as check marks, boxes, telephone symbols etc.) in text:

 

+ Select Insert -> Special Characters. go view the selection of characters available.

 

+ In the large selection field select the desired character or more than one by clicking with the mouse or by navigating by keyboard in succession. The characters are displayed at the bottom of the dialogue box. Upon closing the dialogue with OK, all displayed characters in the selected font are inserted in the current document at the cursor.

 

+ If a special character is required in any text input field (such as in the URL field of the function bar or in the input fields in the Find&Replace dialogue), press Shift+Ctrl+S to pop up the Special Characters dialogue.

[jimw]

Sorry, I should perhaps have been more specific. I know about that process, _but_ someone else was talking about using Ctl-Shift hexcode to put special characters in Open Office on Ubuntu.

 

It is possible, therefore, on at least some varieties of Linux. Is it not possible on Mandrake 10.0?

 

JimW