On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 03:20:30AM EDT, j t wrote: > Good morning all. > > I'm reasonably sure that I used to be able to input unicode characters > by holding down <shift> and <ctrl> and then tapping out the hex code > for the character that I wanted, and then releasing <shift> and > <ctrl>. For example, pressing and holding <ctrl> and <shift> and then > tapping 20AC would give me a euro symbol.
A reasonable assumption: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/ISO-14755.pdf > Now (on a fresh clean Lenny) this input method doesn't seem to work > anymore. Does anyone know why it doesn't work, or what's changed (or > is it my memory that failing)? On what system did you see it work - and in what application(s)¹…? I'm also running lenny, and on an xterm running bash, the "beginning sequence" - i.e. depressing/holding Control+Shift - is not recognized since when I hit the final "C" of "20AC" I generate an interrupt that results in the bash prompt being redisplayed. > BTW, I'm aware of various other methods for getting the euro symbol, > but it's this particular input method that I'm interested in... Which has the merit to confirm that the font you tested with has something that should look like "€" in slot 8486 - 0x20AC.. ☻ CJ ¹ xterm+shell… linux console… your favorite editor… ?? (looks like this is implementation-dependent) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
