2009/9/26 Harold Fuchs <[email protected]>:
> Sorry to reply to my own post but ...
>
> If you are on a Windows system and you use the wonderful, free program
> AllChars (http://allchars.zwolnet.com/) for entering accented characters,
> ligatures etc. then you can enter a non-breaking space with the 3-character
> sequence Ctrl s p; that is hit (do *not* hold down) the Ctrl key followed by
> s followed by p.
>
> I tried and, yes of course it works in the Find or Replace box in Writer
> *without* you having to use Regular Expressions.

Yes, AllChars ”emulates” the Unix/Linux style of entering special
characters. If you are on Linux (at least Ubuntu, I can't say much
about other distributions), there is also another way, better in that
matter that ou can enter every UTF-8 character there is to enter:
Ctrl+Shift+u → Release keys → enter the hex code, in this case a0 →
hit ↵(Enter).

This works for any UTF-8 character, such as:
☏☠←↑↓→⇨↵¶⅛¼⅜½⅝¾⅞⅓⅔⅕⅖⅗⅘⅚⅙×·☹¡☺¿πΩωφ©℗℃℉⚀⚁⚂⚃⚄⚅τ♢♣♡♠⡺⡻⡼⥻⧒⩽⩾のあタㄞ亁乬亜亹亶廬靈
etc etc (there are thousands of them, but few fonts contains all of
them, so you need additional fonts in some cases).

J.R.

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