Hi, In the light of all the Unicode talk lately, I did some research on how to type those lovely new characters. No point in having Unicode support and nobody knows how to type those characters! :-) Now you can tell your users how to type them in your Unicode enabled applications.
Windows (Win2K and up I guess): ALT+<hex number> Linux (GTK2 only): * Press Ctrl+Shift+U, then type the desired hexadecimal code. The benefit of this approach is that you can correct the hexadecimal code in typed wrongly. (I never knew this handle little trick! fpGUI will have this soon.) * The Compose key can also be used, but I don't know all the key combinations. The previous option always works. No idea about the other platforms or desktop managers like KDE. BTW: These are the characters I was interested in. — (U+2014): emphasis dash … (U+2026): horizontal ellipses ' (U+2019): right single quotation " (U+201C): left double quotation " (U+201D): right double quotation ― (U+2015): quotation dash (introducing quoted text) Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
