Re: Typing special characters

[Daniel James <daniel netbreeze com au>]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 00:49 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I just upgraded my Ubuntu Dapper amd64 to Edgy amd64. Previously in any
> application I could type Ctrl+Shift plus a hex code and it would type
> the Unicode character for that hex code. E.g., to get a schwa, type Ctrl
> +Shift+1DD. 
> 
> Since upgrading to Edgy this no longer works in any application. I am a
> student of linguistics and I really need this capability. What
> happened, and how can I fix it?

Same thing happened to me! The new method is:

<alt>+<control>+u<code>

Daniel