Hi all, I had a small problem with entering some ASCII and Unicode characters that are not available on the normal keyboard (En-US). Right now I have to use the character map to get those characters but that makes it really slow to work with such text.
Is there a simpler, faster way to enter such characters using their ASCII or Unicode values directly in a text editor (I use gedit/kwrite/kate et al but would like to know a universal method, if it exists, that works with all the
editors including the command line ones..).
For example, in Windoze you can enter any ASCII character by holding down Alt - typing out the ASCII value of that character - then releasing Alt - the character is inserted at the cursor.
I am currently using Gutsy Gibbon.
Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and regards.
2007/12/26, Kamaleshwar Morjal kamaleshwar.morjal@gmail.com:
Is there a simpler, faster way to enter such characters using their ASCII or Unicode values directly in a text editor (I use gedit/kwrite/kate et al but would like to know a universal method, if it exists, that works with all the
editors including the command line ones..).
I guess you are looking for SCIM https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM
Anurag
On Dec 26, 2007 7:47 PM, Anurag anurag@gnuer.org wrote:
2007/12/26, Kamaleshwar Morjal kamaleshwar.morjal@gmail.com:
Is there a simpler, faster way to enter such characters using their
ASCII
or Unicode values directly in a text editor (I use gedit/kwrite/kate et
al
but would like to know a universal method, if it exists, that works with all
the
editors including the command line ones..).
I guess you are looking for SCIM https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM
Hi, thanks. I installed SCIM according to the instructions on the above mentioned page. But I could not see any activity after starting the program from terminal.. Here's what i got at the terminal after starting it.. ---- $ scim Smart Common Input Method 1.4.7
Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd... Loading simple Config module ... Creating backend ... Loading socket FrontEnd module ... Starting SCIM as daemon ... Launching a SCIM process with x11... Loading socket Config module ... Creating backend ... Loading x11 FrontEnd module ... GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.7
Starting SCIM ... ---
Nothing after this.. I tried using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Space as mentioned here > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM but that doesn't work either!
Am I missing something there?
On Dec 29, 2007 3:56 AM, Kamaleshwar Morjal kamaleshwar.morjal@gmail.com wrote:
Nothing after this.. I tried using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Space as mentioned here > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM but that doesn't work either!
Am I missing something there?
I have tried http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/SCIM_hindi and works fine for me. Though this tutorial specifically refers to hindi, I have tried marathi and gujarati and got them working.
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