2009/1/30 Joe Smith <[email protected]> > John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> ... >> To find the Unicode number for a character go to Insert > Special >> Character and browse through all the characters until you find the one >> you need. ... >> > > You may want to take a look at the standard Character Map application; it's > under "Accessories" in the desktop menu for Fedora Linux. I find it far > easier to use, and more useful, than OOo's Insert > Special Character > dialog. > > It includes a complete Unicode map--not limited to one selected font, full > information about each character, and you can search the character names. > This makes it much easier to locate the character you need. > > You can copy/paste characters into OOo, or drag them from the map into your > document. The characters are entered as pure characters, without tying them > to a specific font as the OOo special character dialog does. > > I'm using the Gnome map, but there are similar facilities for KDE and > Windows, as well as Mac, I expect. > > <Joe
I have bookmarked the «Table de caractères Unicode» ( http://unicode.coeurlumiere.com/), which I find makes finding code for glyphs I don't know by heart fairly easy.... Henri
