[opensuse-kde] Inserting special characters in KDE apps
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 -- "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
Op 26-03-13 07:06, Thomas Taylor schreef:
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
Cor Blom said the following on 03/26/2013 03:41 AM:
Op 26-03-13 07:06, Thomas Taylor schreef:
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.
Wont it depend on the character set being used to display the text? -- "It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy." -- George Horace Lormier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:41:18 +0100 Cor Blom <cor.blom@solcon.nl> wrote:
Op 26-03-13 07:06, Thomas Taylor schreef:
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 Tue, Mar 26 10:14:03 AM Thomas Taylor wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:41:18 +0100
Cor Blom <cor.blom@solcon.nl> wrote:
Op 26-03-13 07:06, Thomas Taylor schreef:
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
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On 26/03/13 17:14, Thomas Taylor wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:41:18 +0100 Cor Blom <cor.blom@solcon.nl> wrote:
Op 26-03-13 07:06, Thomas Taylor schreef:
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
Hi Tom, What I did was to add an entry in ~/.Xmodmap something like this keycode 32 = o O o O U221E Oslash o O altgr+shift+O shall give you Ø if you font supports it. Alin On Tue 26 Mar 2013 10:14:03 Thomas Taylor wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:41:18 +0100
Cor Blom <cor.blom@solcon.nl> wrote:
Op 26-03-13 07:06, Thomas Taylor schreef:
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 -- Without Questions there are no Answers!
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Op 26-03-13 18:14, Thomas Taylor schreef:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:41:18 +0100 Cor Blom <cor.blom@solcon.nl> wrote:
Op 26-03-13 07:06, Thomas Taylor schreef:
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
On Montag, 25. März 2013 23:06:16 Thomas Taylor wrote:
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.
You might try this: enable compose key (Settings->Keyboard->Advanced) Configure keyboard options Compose key position Make your choice (I use Right Win) Apply. Now press compose key, then / and O: Ø, or compose key, then o and /: ø Same goes for â, (a and ^), ä (a and "), and so forth.. Should work, wherever X awaits some input (as this is a X option). Cheers, Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
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