On 17-01-28 23:04, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 01/28/2017 02:53 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 00:21:37 +0000 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said:
> > 
> >> I am using the Terminology I compiled from github a few weeks ago.
> >> It doesn't appear to support Ctrl-Shift-U nnnn Enter for typing Unicode
> >> characters as other terminal emulators under Linux do. Is this correct,
> > 
> > nope. it doesn't. but if you have a multi/compose key set up... why not just
> > use compose sequences and regular input methods? 
> 
> I do that all the time already. AltGr-e gets me é and so on. This is
> standard, no need to set up anything, as it's selected when I install
> Xubuntu, and I maintain a keyboard map for it at
> http://silmaril.ie/linux/keyboard.pdf
> 
> But in my work I often need to access many other characters from the
> Unicode repertoire, and Ctrl-Shift-U nnnn Enter is a convenient way to
> do this.
> 
> No matter; it works in many other Linux applications (even Thunderbird,
> where I am typing now, so if I suddenly need the alchemical 'retort'
> symbol 🝭 I can just type Ctrl-Shift-U 1f76d Enter and it appears. I can
> always copy and paste to Terminology.
> 
> I don't know if this is an Ubuntu thing or if it works in other distros.
> If it's a widespread systems facility, maybe it might be worth enabling
> it in Terminology at some future point.
> 

It is actually a gtk feature.
I am not aware of any plan to add it to efl.

-- 
Boris Faure
Pointer Arithmetician
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