On 29. July 2004 at 1:21PM +0200, Philipp Wagner <lists at philipp-wagner.com> wrote:
> Craig Bradney schrieb: > > [...] > > > > Use Insert Special, but when you find the characters you > > need, right click on them there and write down the Unicode > > Hex character code. When editing the text, hit F12, type in > > the code and the character will appear.. not as slow as > > always switching to the insert window each time or trying to > > type full words there. > > Hmm, I remember that it was (is?) possible in MS Word to type > ALT-<Unicode> to get any special char inserted. I think typing > the ALT-key is a lot faster than pressing F12, especially if > you have a lot of special characters to insert (I often used > that when I had to type German stuff on an American > keyboard). I don't know if that is a speciality of MS Word or a > feature of Windows (or the edit-components). Does that collide > with other shortcuts or would it be possible to support it? That's a Windows feature. But the Mac way of entering special characters is lots better, to get the "e" in say "elan" you had to type IRC option-e e, somewhat like deadkeys.
