Bug 410233

Summary:	Allow Kate/Kwrite to enter Unicode characters with Ctrl+Shift+U (ISO-14755)
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Thiago Sueto <herzenschein>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	19.04.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Thiago Sueto 2019-07-26 13:38:00 UTC

SUMMARY
Kate/Kwrite has Unicode support, but while it allows to use Compose and AltGr to insert Unicode characters, it does not allow to use Ctrl+Shift+U, as specified in ISO-14755.
It would be nice to be able to use this method as well.
This does conflict with Kate's case keyboard shortcuts however (namely Ctrl+U, Ctrl+Shift+U, Ctrl+Alt+U), so such a change would require changing the respective keyboard shortcuts.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.60.0
Qt Version: 5.12.2

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2019-07-26 14:33:21 UTC

That shouldn't be the responsibility of the application. Qt already delivers keycodes as Unicode characters, so whatever does the mapping of keycode combinations to Unicode should handle it, so that it works everywhere.

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2019-07-26 14:35:30 UTC


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