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  • (Score: 1) by unauthorized on Saturday March 15 2014, @05:51AM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Saturday March 15 2014, @05:51AM (#16790)

    You can always directly input unicode hexcodes. The code for Ëš is 2DA. On Windows you press "ALT +(hexcode)", on most GTK software it's "CTRL-ALT-U (hexcode)". Sadly X doesn't support global unicode input out of the box, but as all things Linux there are about 5+e9 different ways to do it. No idea for OSX through.

  • (Score: 1) by unauthorized on Saturday March 15 2014, @05:56AM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Saturday March 15 2014, @05:56AM (#16792)

    Well, you could do it, but only on sites which actually support UTF-8.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 15 2014, @03:27PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday March 15 2014, @03:27PM (#16911)

      Of course you can always do it as HTML entity: ˚ gives ˚

      Of course if you use Unicode anyway, you can also use the full unit symbol for temperatures: ℃ gives ℃ and ℉ gives ℉

      --
      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

      • (Score: 1) by zsau on Tuesday March 18 2014, @12:21AM

        by zsau (2642) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @12:21AM (#17926)

        Except that you shouldn't use the full unit symbols for temperatures; they're "compatibility characters" and exist only to support round-tripping with certain CJK encodings (that is to say, so you can convert a text from EUC-JP to Unicode and back to EUC-JP, and have the same text). When composing a text in Unicode which is not required to be compatible with a specific text encoded in a different character set, you should always use the two separate symbols.

  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Thursday March 20 2014, @02:27AM

    by Marand (1081) on Thursday March 20 2014, @02:27AM (#18788)

    You can always directly input unicode hexcodes. The code for Ëš is 2DA. On Windows you press "ALT +(hexcode)", on most GTK software it's "CTRL-ALT-U (hexcode)". Sadly X doesn't support global unicode input out of the box, but as all things Linux there are about 5+e9 different ways to do it. No idea for OSX through.

    Best way to go about it with X is to replace a seldom-used key with the Compose key [wikipedia.org]. Degrees is, for example, a three key sequence: compose, o, o. It also gives easy access to accents and other symbols that one might need occasionally, such as foreign currencies. Euro is "compose, e, =" as another example.

    You can also add custom ones in your own compose file, too. I added a couple shortcuts for things like an infinity symbol.