Lost Ctrl+Shift+hex unicode entry - FC6 issue?

[Neil Bird]

   At some point in the recent past, I seem to have lost the ability to 
enter Unicode values in GTK apps. (inc. Thunderbird & gvim) by holding 
<Ctrl+Shift> and entering the hex value.  It seems to act as if <Shift>'s

not held down (and yes, my Shift keys work).

   This may have happened as part of upgrading from FC5 to 6;  anyone any 
idea what to check?

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[neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil@fnx ~]# exit

[Chris Mohler]

I'm pretty sure that I had this working in FC6 not too long ago.

Not sure what's changed, but it no longer works for me either.

Chris

[Tony Nelson]

At 2:51 PM +0000 1/3/07, Neil Bird wrote:
>    At some point in the recent past, I seem to have lost the ability
> to
> enter Unicode values in GTK apps. (inc. Thunderbird & gvim) by holding
> <Ctrl+Shift> and entering the hex value.  It seems to act as if <Shift>'s
> not held down (and yes, my Shift keys work).
>
>    This may have happened as part of upgrading from FC5 to 6;  anyone any
> idea what to check? 
In Gnome, System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layout Options : Compose key
position.
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[Todd Zullinger]

Neil Bird wrote:
>  At some point in the recent past, I seem to have lost the ability to
>  enter Unicode values in GTK apps. (inc. Thunderbird & gvim) by
>  holding <Ctrl+Shift> and entering the hex value.  It seems to act as
>  if <Shift>'s not held down (and yes, my Shift keys work).
>  
>  This may have happened as part of upgrading from FC5 to 6;  anyone
>  any idea what to check? 

I wish I could find where this is documented, but my google-fu is
failing me at the moment.  But I do know that the input method changed
somewhere around gnome 2.15.  To enter a unicode character, just type
ctrl+shift+u and then the hex value.  (You don't have to keep c-s-u
held while entering the hex value.)

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