Unicode Input for LibreOffice in Xubuntu

[melander]

If you're trying to input a non-keyboard character in Xubuntu, you hit [Ctrl]+[Shift]+u, then type in the four digit Unicode hex digit for your character and then hit enter.

This is needed not only for foreign language words but also for typographical characters such as section (§ [Ctrl]+[Shift]+u 00a7 [Enter]), paragraph (¶ [Ctrl]+[Shift]+u 00b6 [Enter]) or a proper "en" dash (— [Ctrl]+[Shift]+u 2014 [Enter]).

Libreoffice Write wasn't allowing me to do this. The problem turned out to be that I didn't have the libreoffice-gtk package installed.

Hope this helps somebody.

Regards,

[Ranko Kohime]

...or a proper "en" dash (— [Ctrl]+[Shift]+u 2014 [Enter]).

Hope this helps somebody.

This has helped me, thank you.

Oh, and 2014 is an "em" dash.

[Headwreck]

Thanks from me, too! That tip about libreoffice-gtk is a winner

[GOwin]

Libreoffice Write wasn't allowing me to do this. The problem turned out to be that I didn't have the libreoffice-gtk package installed.

Hope this helps somebody.

Regards,

Just experienced the same issue with Calc. Thank you for sharing this informative post.

However, after I installed gtk-office Calc would display the unicode character as a box in the input line.