Re: [SLE] easy way to enter this symbol:￥

On Saturday 30 September 2006 04:44, 张韡武 wrote:
This symbol is very important to me, it means Chinese money, RMB or CNY.
I use it everyday on OOCalc. How do I enter this symbol?

I first thought it was:
¥: Hold R-Shift, press R-Ctrl, release both, press '=', press 'Y'
but that one is *clearly* different: ¥ = U+00A5

*This* is what you're looking for:
￥: U+FFE5, KDE's KCharSelect, table 255, bottom row, sixth character.

The old way is to keep it in tomboy (a memo application) and copy &
paste it to OOCalc when I need it.

Windows (Chinese version) has a special feature to enter this symbol
easily.

Other symbols I don't know how to enter in Linux are:

I copied the characters into a text file (kate), saved it as a utf-16 file,
opened it with Midnight Commander (mc) using 'View' (F3), and I could
discover the 16-bit unicode numbers.

1. 、

KDE's KCharSelect, table 48, U+3001 (top row, second char from left

2. 《》

KDE's KCharSelect, table 48, U+300A and U+300B (top row, eleventh and twelfth
char from left)

(Hover with your mouse over the characters, and a yellow hint-window will pop
up, showing the unicode char number and other info)

These symbols are very frequently used Chinese punctuations. They are
all available in Windows as 'software keyboard' that when enabled, each
key is replaced by a Chinese punctuation. Thanks to this interesting
feature, currently no Chinese keyboard actually implement these
punctuations as separate key.

What might be handy for you is the Character Selector Panel applet.

Right-click on the Panel, click 'Add Applet to Panel', select 'Character
Selector'.

Now right-click on the handle to the left of the Character Select applet,
choose 'Configure Character Select', and enter your characters that you want
to use. Usage: click a character to copy it to the clipboard, and paste (^V)
it from the clipboard to whatever is appropriate (editor or so).

P.S. I tried to look for them in char-map but is not able to find them
easily. The way I keep using is google-for-it-and-copy&paste.

Maybe try my way: isolate a character (e.g. ￥, put it in a text-file, save it
as a utf-16 file (select utf-16 in the SaveFile dialog), open it with F3-key
in mc (Midnight Commander) and locate the byte combination E5 FF (you need
the hex view, switch with F4 if necessary). This is reverse byte order, the
unicode number is U+FFE5.

You could also use KHexEdit to view the file.

Cheers,

Leen

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