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Umeir
June 21st, 2011, 03:34 PM
I am using Mozilla Firebox, and I want to post special charaters like in the windows environment! For example ALT+3 (result in a heart) or ALT+130 (result in é ) :(

SoFl W
June 21st, 2011, 03:51 PM
I know there is a way but I have forgotten. While using DOS and eventually Windows I had memorized all the ALT codes. Don't use them enough in Linux enough to do so. What I did was create a "SpecialCharacters.txt" file on my desktop, it contains the special characters I might use. Whenever I want to insert those into a web form, I open the text file. FireFox also has a "quicknote" addon, you can use one of the notes for special characters.

OpenOffice (LibreOffice) has an insert special character function.

Elline
June 21st, 2011, 08:55 PM
You need a compose key.
First, check your keyboard settings by going to "System > Preferences > Keyboard". Then choose "layouts > options" and set the "Compose key position".

Now you will be able to press that button you settled and type some characters in sequence. For example "e =" will give an euro sign.

ComposeKey (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey)

Umeir
June 22nd, 2011, 10:38 AM
Thank you lotsa :guitar:

SoFl W
June 22nd, 2011, 11:42 AM
Thank you Elline, the reason I was having trouble was because I was doing it wrong. (I think I was still hitting the ALT key and not the compose key.) ⅞ of the ones that I use are simple enough to memorize.

anotherone33
November 25th, 2011, 10:15 PM
useful ubuntu help (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey)

unicode reference (http://www.smartfeeling.org/unicode/Unicode.html) table for ctrl-shift-u + number

another unicode (http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/general-info/unicode.html) table

unicode compose sequence text (http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/nls/Compose/en_US.UTF-8?view=co)

so reading for my problem, inserting double rectangular brackets « »

1. ctrl-shift-u + ab and ctrl-shift-u + bb
2. altgr + < and altgr + > (shift + <)
3. copy and paste from a table ...

hi guys