Jim Wagner wrote:
John Jordan wrote:
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.
I'm using Titus Cyberbit Unicode. Even when I go to some simple
ordinary thing like W, all I can get is ))%&. Fascinating thing is when
I did it in this message, I got W. And I did a further test, with a
more obscure character, and here it is: Ғ.
This leads me to believe that I may have missed setting something on
OpenOffice itself.
I'll check what I can see, but if anyone knows what I ought to have
done, please let me know.
Not having had any responses, I will put this forward once more.
I've been able to use Ctl-Shift-hex to enter special characters in my
e-mail (Thunderbird) and in gedit. No result in Kword, and in Kwrite,
even with Titus Cyberbit Unicode set for the font, just the same as in
OO, that is, the upper-case characters on the number keys.
Anyone know something I may have forgotten?
JimW
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