Ian wrote:
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> Would something like this be useful?
I would find it incredibly useful.
> A quick double check - is such a macro really necessary
ALT+ 4 digits is built into either Windows, or MSOffice, for inputting
Unicode characters.
Pretty much everybody coming from windows, expects to find that function.
IIRC, the expectation from Mac is Option Key + 4 digits. [I don't
remember what I wrote in my multi-lingual tutorial. AFAIK, what I
wrote there was correct. (And if it wasn't, nobody has pointed out
the error of my ways to me.)]
I don't know if there is a general Linux "solution"or not.
>and if so could someone tell me how they would like an alt+ digit
keys to produce a Unicode character macro to work?
Hit the alt key, then hit four hexadecimal keys, and watch the glyph
appear on the screen.â
[That smiley faces does not look like it is smiling.]
A compromise would be hit Alt, then "u" or "U", then "x", then four
hexadecimal digits. If you wanted to get really sophisticated, you
could make that "h" for hexadecimal, or "d" for decimal.
For decimal input, you will have to read digits, till you reach a
space, or non-decimal character.
xan
jonathon
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