On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:41:18 +0100 Cor Blom wrote:

Op 26-03-13 07:06, Thomas Taylor schreef:

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How does one insert special characters into editors/apps in KDE? One of the characters I want to use frequently is Ø, a slashed zero which is frequently used in radio/tele-communication.

Thanks, Tom

There is a special app for this: kcharselect.

Cor

Hi Cor, Thanks for the response. I had already searched both kcharselect and gcharselect and neither has that character. The old fashioned way was to use "alt 0216" but that doesn't work on unicharacter (U + 00D8) systems. How are these characters entered? Tom -- "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." Henry Ford -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.2-x86_64 openSUSE 12.3-x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.10.00, FF 19.0 claws-mail 3.9.1 registered linux user 263467 KG7CFC - 2 meters -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org

On 26/03/13 17:14, Thomas Taylor wrote:

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:41:18 +0100 Cor Blom wrote:

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Op 26-03-13 07:06, Thomas Taylor schreef:

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How does one insert special characters into editors/apps in KDE? One of the characters I want to use frequently is Ø, a slashed zero which is frequently used in radio/tele-communication.

Thanks, Tom

There is a special app for this: kcharselect.

Cor

Hi Cor, Thanks for the response. I had already searched both kcharselect and gcharselect and neither has that character. The old fashioned way was to use "alt 0216" but that doesn't work on unicharacter (U + 00D8) systems. How are these characters entered?

Tom

I just entered U+00D8 into the search bar in kcharselect and it found this Ø straight away. I'm using the Liberation Sans font. Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.7.10-1.1-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.10.1 "release 545" Uptime: 06:00am up 15:50, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.17, 0.15 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org

Op 26-03-13 18:14, Thomas Taylor schreef:

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:41:18 +0100 Cor Blom wrote:

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Op 26-03-13 07:06, Thomas Taylor schreef:

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How does one insert special characters into editors/apps in KDE? One of the characters I want to use frequently is Ø, a slashed zero which is frequently used in radio/tele-communication.

Thanks, Tom

There is a special app for this: kcharselect.

Cor

Hi Cor, Thanks for the response. I had already searched both kcharselect and gcharselect and neither has that character. The old fashioned way was to use "alt 0216" but that doesn't work on unicharacter (U + 00D8) systems. How are these characters entered?

Tom

You need a font that has that character. Not all fonts do. Cor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org