unicode symbols

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Mar 12 18:12:11 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:44 -0800, Rob Healey wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> I am using current packages for Fedora rawhide/14.  I have the need to
> be able to get a degrees, minutes, and seconds symbols and not able to
> type them...
> 
> I use to be able to do Ctrl+Shift+u+00b0 [Enter] and it was there.
> Now all that it shows me is the 00b0 instead...
> Ctrl+Shift+u00b0 = degrees
> Ctrl+Shift+u2032 = minutes
> Ctrl+Shift+u2033 = seconds symbols
> 
> Can anybody tell me if there is something wrong or did it change?
> 

These sequences are implemented by GTK+'s default input method. Most
likely, some other input method is getting used on your system for
whatever reason. Some input methods do a fallback that still allows
these sequences to work, but some don't (and some get it wrong...).



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