Re: control+shift?

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 14:00 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:50:12PM +1000, Daniel James wrote:
With gnome 2.14 I was able to hold control and shift and then type a
utf-8 number and it would insert the utf-8 character. Now with gnome
2.16 it seems to be gone. Does anyone know how to get this behaviour
back? I am using Edgy (Ubuntu).

I thought this was in the release notes (not sure).

Type: CTRL-SHIFT-U, then the UTF-8 characters.

This was changed to avoid stealing so many keys (16) from an
application.

Yeesh. I wish people would tell the HIG maintainers when they make
changes like that :) (Or even ask them first...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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