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entering unicodes into text editors. How? [message #327412]

Thu, 17 April 2008 22:11

Eclipse User

Hi,

The eclipse text editing framework supports displaying UTF-8 characters.
I copy and paste stuff (Chinese characters, etc.) from web pages into
my editor and it displays without problem. The question, and sorry if
it's a dumb one, how can one enter unicode characters, say, from an
English keyboard? Any example? Any language is fine. thanks.

Re: entering unicodes into text editors. How? [message #327418 is a reply to message #327412]

Fri, 18 April 2008 03:20

Eclipse User

AL wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The eclipse text editing framework supports displaying UTF-8
> characters. I copy and paste stuff (Chinese characters, etc.) from
> web pages into my editor and it displays without problem. The
> question, and sorry if it's a dumb one, how can one enter unicode
> characters, say, from an English keyboard? Any example? Any language
> is fine. thanks.
If you're on Windows make sure you have turned on the advanced text
services and installed e.g. a Chinese. You can then use IME
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method_editor) to enter those
characters.

Dani

Re: entering unicodes into text editors. How? [message #327436 is a reply to message #327418]

Sat, 19 April 2008 13:57

Eclipse User

Daniel Megert wrote:
> AL wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The eclipse text editing framework supports displaying UTF-8
>> characters. I copy and paste stuff (Chinese characters, etc.) from
>> web pages into my editor and it displays without problem. The
>> question, and sorry if it's a dumb one, how can one enter unicode
>> characters, say, from an English keyboard? Any example? Any language
>> is fine. thanks.
> If you're on Windows make sure you have turned on the advanced text
> services and installed e.g. a Chinese. You can then use IME
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method_editor) to enter those
> characters.
>
> Dani

Thanks...Any idea how on Linux? I use Ubuntu.

Re: entering unicodes into text editors. How? [message #327437 is a reply to message #327436]

Sat, 19 April 2008 15:05

Eclipse User

AL wrote:
>
> Thanks...Any idea how on Linux? I use Ubuntu.

That's more a linux question than eclipse. In GTK+, use CTRL+SHIFT+U
then type in up to 4 characters and then hit CR

ex: CTRL+SHIFT+U3059<CR> enters a squiggly (Japanese, I think) character
in my java editor.

PW

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