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

Fri, 18 April 2008 02:11

Alex Le

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Registered: July 2009

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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.

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

Fri, 18 April 2008 07:20

Dani Megert

Messages: 3802
Registered: July 2009

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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

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

Sat, 19 April 2008 17:57

Alex Le

Messages: 649
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

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.

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