2008/1/7, Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > M Henri Day wrote: > > > Thanks, Jim, for the tip ! I have now been able to install Quick Unicode > > Input on my Vista Business setup and can use «Alt + 0[decimal code]» to > > input Unicode glyphs on, e g, Wordpad and OOo 2.3. However, I have *not* > > been able to input glyphs using the respective hexadecimal codes, which > you > > seem to be able to do. What are you doing that I'm not ?... > > Nothing that I know of. > > For example, to enter a lower-case Greek alpha enter ".3B1" on the > numeric keypad (with Num Lock on and Alt key pressed) using "*" for "B". > To enter a lower-case Greek phi enter ".3C6" using "-" for "C". To enter > Cyrillic capital letter schwa enter ".4D8" using "+" for "D". To enter > the masculine symbol just type ".2642". > > Or you can just enter Alt-numpad-period followed by the alt-letters on > the regular keyboard, using real "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F" rather > than the Num Pad substitution characters and the digits on the first row > of the keyboard. > > You can mix and match. > > Just make sure you hold down the Alt key while pressing all keys and > always begin with Alt-Keypad-Period for hex entry. > > You can also enter the initial zero for these codes if you wish. > > Jim Allan
Thanks, Jim ! What you were doing that I was not was entering the Num key «.» before the hex code. Everything works precisely as you mention above, both in XP and Vista. Now if only I could resolve my problem on Ubuntu Gutsy !... Henri
