From: Peter Jacobi (pj_at_walter-graphtek.com)
Date: Sat Nov 15 2003 - 05:33:39 EST
Hi,
I'm wondering whether I missed to find a method to input Unicode
characters into AbiWord (I'm using 1.99.6 on W2K).
As was already discussed, "Insert Symbol" tends to hang on exotic fonts.
And in addition, it works only for the broken and definitievly 20th century
method of special characters mapped to the Latin-1 codepoint range.
I.e., when I choose "Code 2000" in "Insert Symbol" only the first 256
codepoints are shown, as in "Code 2000" the special characters are on
their true Unicode position.
I've just found out about a standard feature of the RichEdit control, which
is unbelieveably usefull:
<cite>
A handy hex-to-Unicode entry method works with WordPad 2000/XP, Office
2000/XP edit boxes, RichEdit controls in general, and in Microsoft Word
2002. Basically you type a character's hexadecimal code (in ASCII), making
corrections as need be, and then type Alt+x. Presto! The hexadecimal code
is replaced by the corresponding Unicode character. The Alt+x is a toggle,
that is, type it once to convert the hex code to a character and type it
again to convert the character back to a hex code. If the hex code is
preceded by one or more hexadecimal digits, you need to "select" the code
so that the preceding hexadecimal characters aren't included in the code.
The code can range up to the value 0x10FFFF, which is the highest character
in the 17 planes of Unicode.
The only problem with this approach is that some programs use Alt+x for
something else (like quit) or the keyboard doesn't have direct access to
ASCII alphabetics.
It's not patented, so anyone can use it :-)
</cite>
Any developers reading this? Any chance to get something similar?
Best Regards,
Peter Jacobi
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