On Nov 2005, at 20:59, Jim Wagner wrote: > > This is interesting. I'm using Mandrake Linux 10.0, and the only way I can > > get special characters in is by the Insert Special Character process. > > > > the Ctrl-Shift-hexcode just gives me nothing. Or have I missed > > something. Or is this a capability unavailable in my version of Linux?
The problem may be the font. If the slots you are accessing are empty in the font, then nothing will come in. Do this as a test: Open Insert > Special Character dialog window, then click on an upper ASCII character in the font you are using. The character will appear in the right-lower area of the window, with the hex number underneath. Note the hex number. Then close the window and try Ctrl- Shift+hex again using that hex number. Works like a champ on my Ubuntu-64 Breezy laptop with OO.o Writer 1.9. My problem is that I also need to do the same thing on my Windows 2000 desktop with OO.o 2.0, and it does nothing there. Same font. There is one additional problem with the Windows version. The tie bar character (hex 0361) does totally weird things. This character is one of the "combining diacriticals," that is, it is supposed to appear as a diacritic on the preceding character. Except that, in the case of the tie bar, it is supposed to be typed in between two characters, so it spans over both of them. It works perfectly on the Linux version, but on Windows it turns the character preceding it into an é. You can verify this if you have a Windows machine with OO.o 2.0 and the Arial Unicode MS font installed. Type any letter, insert the tie bar and see what happens. Normally I would use the tie bar between the d and an ezh, (Ezh is hex 0292 -- ezh is also known as the yogh, used for the sound of j in French or the central fricative in "leisure," "azure," etc. When combined with a d it becomes the English affricate j as in "judge," in which case it is customary to use the tie bar over the d and the ezh to indicate that it is one sound.) I have a couple other Unicode compliant fonts with the ezh and it does the same with those fonts on the Windows machine. Again, the ezh works perfectly on OO.o 1.9 on the Linux laptop. I need to make a bug report I guess, because this is clearly wrong on Windows OO.o 2.0. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
