09-18-2019, 07:46 PM
(09-18-2019, 04:43 PM)Krikor Wrote:(08-17-2019, 08:23 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: You can enter any Unicode character, using your keyboard, or some alternate input method (Alt+unicode) or cut and pasting fro a character table (I use sites that show Unicode characters). This includes accented letters (*), but also non-latin alphabets or ideographic systems, and even emojis, if your font supports them.
(*) I know from experience that accented letters that are a single character (for instance, ê) work, but I don't know if combined diacritics (for instance, e+^) work correctly
Blighty and Rich2005, I understand the instructions given by you, ctrl + shift + U followed by the number:
10ctrl + shift + u00b0 and I'll have 10º.
But I always used Alt+Code straight from the keyboard.
To get the same result above I just had to type 10 + Alt + 167 and it would also have 10º.
My keyboard accentuates smoothly characters like `^ ¨, àôü, just using the keys, and in any other program I use Alt + Code without any problems.
So I thought that after yesterday's power outage my Gimp could have somehow corrupted itself and created that impossibility.
Well, I checked and it is also impossible to use Alt + 167 with Inkscape.
Thank you guys.
PS: Not conformed to this limitation of Gimp, even the most Jurassic editor that can exist allows the use of Alt+Cód, Mais c'est la vie.
The Alt-[numbers] entry dates back to PC-DOS 1.0 (and perhaps alredy existed in one of its predecessors). Not a feature of apps at the time, but squarely entrenched in the keyboard drivers, so all apps would have it natively.
On modern OSes, this entry doesn't make sense because you need to support much more than 127 non-ASCII characters.