Thanks for these detailed information !
Hagar
Le 25.05.2007 15:56, John Jason Jordan a écrit :
On Fri, 25 May 2007 12:31:02 +0200
"M Henri Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
Fascinating, but confusing - in your case, the ISO-14755 standard works,
while John Jason and I must add a «u» to our procedure ! Can this be because
you are using Dapper, while we are using Feisty ? Sounds counter-intuitive
to me, but one never knows. It would be interesting to about the experiences
of other Ubuntu users....
This is absolutely correct. The standard is an OS thing. Actually, it
is not just an OS thing, it is a change made in the Linux kernel
(that's way deep down inside the OS). The kernel used by Dapper was the
last one where the old method (Ctrl+Shift+hex) worked. I discovered
last December that the old method no longer worked and I had to use Ctrl
+Shift+u+hex after I upgraded Dapper to Edgy. The change to the new
method was required in order to gain access to all Unicode glyphs in
the 16-bit registers. Note that Windows Alt+decimal will have to change
as well, although probably Microsoft will just require you to type six
more zeroes in front of the actual number.
So as long as Hagar is on Dapper he must use Ctrl+Shift+hex. That will
work in all applications except OpenOffice.org. To do so in OOo he must
have openoffice.org-gnome and -gtk installed. That is because OOo does
not handle Unicode glyphs above ASCII 255 correctly, so those two
modules are required in order to "translate" OOo font requests for
Unicode glyphs into Linux-speak. My dim understanding of OOo and fonts
on Linux is that there will eventually be a rewrite of some parts of
the code in order to enable the use of OpenType on Linux. I am assuming
that after that happens those two modules will no longer be needed.
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