Subject: Re: keyboard input of arbitrary characters
jrb@redhat.com
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 14:09:53 CDT
Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com> writes:
> At 10:43 PM 4/17/01 +0200, Mike Nordell wrote:
> >Paul Rohr wrote:
> >> I really like the idea of having a keyboard-driven ALT+ mechanism to input
> >> arbitrary characters, but rather than stick to Windows-specific codepage
> >> conventions, wouldn't we want to somehow specify *Unicode* characters as
> >the
> >> alternative to ANSI?
In GTK+-2.0, you can do this as Ctrl-Shift-[Unicode char code number].
Apparently this is an iso standard somewhere, too. Additionally, it has
a pretty sophisticated input method mechanism that can be used by the
application, if it wants.
Just a data point,
-Jonathan
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