Bug 187263 - Need a way to enter Unicode character codes
Summary: Need a way to enter Unicode character codes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103788
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Unspecified
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Reported: 2009-03-15 23:32 UTC by Dotan Cohen
Modified: 2012-03-11 09:25 UTC (History)
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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.