Re: [Gimp-user] How do I put diacritics in text?

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

Hi Alex!

On Mon, 8 May 2017 18:11:20 +1000
Alex Bell <afjbell bigpond net au> wrote:

> I'm afraid I have minimal knowledge of GIMP; I only use it to design 
> simple covers for the ebooks I design for the free ebook library at 
> www.mobileread.com.
>
> The ebook I'm about to start working on is 'The Adventures of Elizabeth 
> in Rügen'. As you can see the u in Rügen has an umlaut, but I can't work 
> out how to produce that with GIMP. The text is white on a black 
> background, so I can't make an image of the text and use that.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to put diacritics in text?

I have no problem inserting a "ü" using my compose key in GIMP (fedora 26
x86-64). See:

http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/images/gimp--text-with-unicode-u-umlaut.png

GIMP should support many unicode codepoints given font support. Try using a
compose key or pasting the text into the GIMP text tool.

Regards,

        Shlomi