Re: Unicode character entry

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Joe Smith <jes martnet com> wrote:
> For the past few years using Gnome on Fedora, I have been able to enter
> arbitrary Unicode characters in any Gnome/Gtk application using Ctrl+Shift+U
> followed by the character's code point as hex digits.
>
> I just upgraded to Fedora 13 which includes Gnome 2.30, and this handy
> feature seems to have disappeared!
>
> I found some advice to use ibus instead, but so far I've not been able to
> get ibus to do what I need without having it interfere with my normal
> typing. I just need a quick way to type common symbols found in English text
> (e.g. an em-dash).
>
> Is this an official Gnome policy, that ibus will be the only way to handle
> input by code point? Or is it a Fedora issue?
>
> Is there any way to get the old behavior?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions or information.

The Ctrl+Shift+U feature is an ISO 14755 compliance by the GTK+ input
method. See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input

I suppose that the IBus input method does not support ISO 14755.
Since you use Fedora, have a look at the Fedora bugzilla on IBus (IBus
is developed by a RedHat engineer and uses the RedHat bugzilla) for
relevant bug reports. If you cannot find something on 'ISO 14755' in
the RedHat Bugzilla, file a bug report.

To answer your question on who to blame; this should be something that
IBus should support in addition to the GTK+ library default input
method.

Normally you would use IBus if you want to write in complex scripts,
notably Asian scripts. For anything Latin-based you can use a layout
such as US English International, which allows to write characters
such as äǵẽëēę··÷ṩłeđŋ”“nµ»«þø²¹€½¾.

Simos

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