Re: keyboard input of arbitrary characters

[jrb]

Paul Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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