I use the key combination Crl+Shift+u to enter unicode characters as for instance ∀.
This works in some applications (e.g. Firefox) it does not work in kate, kwrite, kile.
Any idea? Which configuration file sets the behaviour of the Crl+Shift+u key combination?
Hello and welcome here.
It is always nice to tell which version of openSUSE you use and which desktop (I assume KDE because you talk about kate and kwrite, but better tell then let people guess).
I just installed openSuSE 13.2 with KDE. (Instead Kubuntu, for a change.) It would be interesting to know if it is a problem of SuSE or just of my configuration.
On 2015-07-29 20:46, altrevolte wrote:
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> I use the key combination Crl+Shift+u to enter unicode characters as for
> instance ∀.
Can you post an example, what to type? So that I can try and comment if
it works here. I don’t remember how to use that feature, I have not used
it in years.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
this does seam to be an old KDE bug that has been pushed around between kde and qt (who owns them now?)
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103788
the qt bugzilla (dead link)
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-8https://web.archive.org/web/20110716101126/http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-8 just for completeness from the internet archive
and it seams to have been passed to Xorg
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26747
according to the kde people this is not their business and it’s fixed upstram by Xorg, and the X people say they’ll get to it, it’s only been 5 years since it was reported.
gnome seams to have an internal fix for this.
in the meantime you can try composing
http://superuser.com/questions/74763/how-to-type-unicode-characters-in-kde
Thank you for the links. The character Ctr+Shift+u key combination works perfectly Kubuntu.
I was surprised it does not work in other distros that use KDE.
To reproduce the bug. Open kwrite (or any other editor based on kate).
Type Crl+Shift+u 2200 (or the 4 hexadecimal digits of the unicode character you want).
Try this in the address bar of Firefox and ∀ appears.
This is openSUSE 13.1 and KDE.
When I try Ctrl+Shift+u in the FF address bar, I get een underscore u.
When I try the same in Konsole, nothing moves and when I then add 2200, I see 2200.
Thus the behaviour is different between the two applications, but also different from what you see.
On 2015-07-30 08:16, altrevolte wrote:
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> robin_listas;2721629 Wrote:
>> Can you post an example, what to type?
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> To reproduce the bug. Open kwrite (or any other editor based on kate).
>
> Type Crl+Shift+u 2200 (or the 4 hexadecimal digits of the unicode
> character you want).
>
> Try this in Firefox and ∀ appears.
Ok. I tried in XFCE Notes, and it works. Thunderbird, too. Tried kate,
under xfce, and did not.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
On 2015-07-30 12:16, hcvv wrote:
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> This is openSUSE 13.1 and KDE.
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> When I try Ctrl+Shift+u in the FF address bar, I get een underscore u.
Maybe try in the forum editor.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Thank you for the links. The character Ctr+Shift+u key combination works perfectly Kubuntu.
didn’t the ?buntu’s move to Wayland some time ago?
Maybe this feature was fixed in Wayland (pure speculation on my side)?
gtk2+ and gtk3+ seam to have this feature natively, that’s the reasoning kde had when they passed this to qt, qt states that this should be handled by xlib so they passed on it.
an updated url for qt’s bug report
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-8
not sure if opensuse still uses X or has moved on to Wayland, there is a Wayland package in the man oss repo
https://software.opensuse.org/package/wayland