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Idea
#2290: add alt+# / ascii support
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Written by Bram S the 1 Mar 08 at 20:08.
Category: Others.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
add the ability to make alt+# ascii symbols
e.g.
alt+0128 = euro sign
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DonQuichote wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 20:21
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Google for "Compose key". I mapped my right windows key to it. It allows you to compose a character with different (non-simultaneous) keystrokes.
Example:
[compose] C = will be e euro sign,
[compose] ` e will be an e-grave,
etc. Just as in MS-Word if you are familiar with that.
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maix wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 20:55
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@DonQuichote: That works for many chars, but not for all. And since those two things are not exclusive, why not include both?
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goodevilgenius wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 21:12
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This is absolutely the only thing I miss about Windows. There is nothing else from Windows I want in Linux, but I do want that.
Although, I think it's probably more of an X thing, than a Ubuntu thing.
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Bram S wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 22:43
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@DonQuichote:
I know these are an option, but i very much like the alt+# option, mainly due to its speed.
I'm not saying ubuntu should look more like windows, but these key combinations are used by a lot of people for this reason. I convinced my dad to use OOo since its fairly compatible with MSO, but i can't see myself convincing him to use ubuntu if he has to learn a whole new way of typing.
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oleksiy wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 17:07
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Ctrl-Shift-U + 00A3 = £
Ctrl-Shift-U + 20AC = €
etc
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Bram S wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 09:29
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@oleksiy:
thank you, but that really isnt the intention of this idea, id like to see support for the aforementioned for compatability reasons (plus its a lil easier than the unicode method)
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aldoo wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 14:54
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There is also an unicode input method for scimm.
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maix wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 19:49
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@aldoo: but you'll have to activate that manually, do you?
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Mike Graham wrote on the 31 May 08 at 14:19
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The compose key is the solution for most cases. It makes it so easy to enter many characters not on a standard English keyboard.
Beyond that, we can directly enter Unicode entities. This way, we can systematically reference a standard, modern character set.
Perhaps some medium can be found. I suspect the best solution is to broaden the abilities of the compose key more and provide documentation a lot more easily.
As a quick remark, the characters you access in these special ways are not in general ASCII. ASCII is a very small character set. What you access when you use these methods are characters from extended character sets.
Voted no.
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joris1977 wrote on the 9 Jun 08 at 11:17
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I totally agree with Bram S. This is a reason for people not to switch to ubuntu or linux in general. Long time dos/windows users have learned using these codes since WP.5.1 and to learn another way of adding special characters will cost extra time and means less productivity for a while. Not everybody is willing to invest this.
The unicode is not an alternative because it means learning a new set of codes.
I guess this is not a special ubuntu issue, but a linux/Xorg issue. Ubuntu is aiming to move ordinary desktop users to linux and issues like this should be addressed to make that happen. Just look at the Ubuntu forums to see how often this issue comes up....
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