Bug 187263

Summary:	Need a way to enter Unicode character codes
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	curan, doc.evans, jaylinux, kde, navid.zamani, psychonaut
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dotan Cohen 2009-03-15 23:32:24 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

There is currently no way to enter Unicode character codes in KDE. In Gnome one can enter Unicode characters with Ctrl-Shift-U-unicodeNumber, and Windows and OS-X have similar conventions. Currently, KDE users must know in advance which Unicode characters they might need and configure them in KcharSelect ahead of time. And since there is no way of typing the characters, the user must copy and paste them from another application into KcharSelect.

Comment 1 doc.evans 2009-03-16 00:02:26 UTC

Dotan beat me to filing this.

Also, see ISO 14755.

I am kind-of surprised that i18n requirements haven't already forced implementation of this feature. It does seem overdue.

Comment 2 Tristan Miller 2009-10-13 12:17:41 UTC

Duplicate of Bug 103788.  Could an admin please mark as such?

Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2009-10-13 13:26:40 UTC

Thanks, Tristan, you are right. Marking.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 103788 ***

Comment 4 Tristan Miller 2009-10-13 14:05:31 UTC

There is another workaround:  configure your keyboard map via X.org's xkb.  This is useful for assigning keys (or key combinations) to commonly used Unicode characters.  However, it's not so useful for one-off entry of arbitrary symbols.