Good morning, thanks a lot for the suggestions. The problem, however, was exactly that copying from the clipboard and all ways to reassign special characters to key combinations did not work in OOo 2.4. As I discoverd since, apparently this is a problem of X11. For in the meantime I have, following suggestions in a different context on this list, downloaded the beta version 3.0.0 of OOo native for OS X PPC, and with this the problem disappears completely, pasting from the clipboard is working perfectly, and I have solved this issue in no time.
Thanks again and have a nice weekend, K.W. On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 2008/9/25 K W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Good evening, > > I am using the German version of OpenOffice.org Writer on a Mac G4 under > OS > > X 10.5. While normal functions work fine - a great thanks to all who > > developed Open Office! - I have a specific problem when dealing with > > Unicode > > characters not normally accessible through the keyboard. I have no > problem > > to insert a special character, e. g. u+016B (LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH > > MACRON) via the menu insert, special character. However, I have not found > > any possibility to enter such characters in a field in the search/replace > > dialogue nor in the AutoCorrect dialogue. In these contexts pasting the > > special character does not work nor does switching the keyboard table to > a > > language that makes this character accesible via the keyboard (e.g. > > Lithuanian) help as even like this the "normal" character as indicated on > > the keyboard is used. I have not found any information on how to solve > this > > in the FAQ nor in the OpenOffice help. > > > > As I am a beginner in using OpenOffice.org Writer I assume that I am > doing > > something very simple wrong, so excuse, please, if I am pestering you > with > > this question, but I would be very grateful if you could explain to me > how > > to overcome this problem. > > > > Thanks a lot and best regards, > > K. Wöbking > > > Sorry for not knowing much about MacOS. Have you tried to paste from the > clipboard? Assuming there is one in MacOS… > > For me, using Ubuntu, Ctrl+v usually works in most situations. Do you have > a > compose key? On my system (still Ubuntu), I can compose my own characters > by > hitting my compose key (I assigned Caps Lock to it), then release it and > then hit two other keys, like (in my case) Caps Lock → Release it → o → > release it → c → release it ⇨ (c). > > (In case something doesn't support UTF-8, (c)=Copyright, →=right arrow, > ⇨="double" right arrow, "=quatation mark (the real ones, since "=inches, > for > example) > > I can also make special characters (UTF-8) by hitting Ctrl+Shift+u → > release > → enter a hexadecimal number → hit space (or Enter if you prefer that). > Before you hit Enter (or space), it will look like this example: *u2103*. > When hitting Enter, *u2103* will be replaced by ℃ (degrees Celsius). Can > you > do something similar with MacOS? If so, that should work, I guess. > > I personally made my own keyboard configuration, so I have four different > characters for every key (in combination with Shift and AltGr, the latter > one often referred to as right Alt key, again I don't know about Mac). I > can > even use the arrow keys for entering characters (←↑↓→⇨⬄), and the Enter key > as well (↵¶). Still they work as they should, as arrow keys (when not > combined with AltGr) and Enter respectively. I suppose that's possible with > Mac too, but for most people it's maybe a bit overkill. > > I am sure I didn't answer your question the way you perharps wanted, but I > hope I possibly gave you one idea or two. > > J.R. >
