M Henri Day wrote:
2008/8/22 Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jim, you write that all Unicode glyphs «are available to you, plus any other non-Unicode characters unique to special symbol fonts. This is true, regardless of your operating system.» I'm running OOo on 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy. While I can enter the glyphs you mention above (𝐯, 𝑣) by typing ««Ctrl+Shift+u», [1d42f or 1d463, respectively], «Space»/«Enter»» into my response here in Gmail or in the Gnome text editor, when I perform the same procedure in OOo (either 2.4.1 or 3.0 beta), I instead get «1d42f» and «1d463». May I ask exactly what key strokes you use to enter these glyphs in OOo ?...
I can enter these characters via the OpenOffice.org menu Insert → Special Character.... I use Windows and it does not support the Ctrl+Shift-u method of entering Unicode characters. I gather from what you say that OpenOffice.org under Gnome under Linux also does not support that method of entering characters. I suggest looking at SCIM at http://www.scim-im.org/ .
Note: I have discovered that while OpenOffice.org under Windows will accept any Unicode character, the Formula editor will not accept any character beyond the base plane, that is any character higher than U+FFFF. It breaks any higher characters into two separate blank boxes, unable to handle anything but non-standard UTF-2 format.
This is a serious bug, and I will soon submit it to the website. Jim Allan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
