Loading Unicode under Ubuntu

One thing you can do is go to applications -> accessories and then go to
character map. That has a lot of the unicode characters most commonly
used so hope that helps :)

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 20:41 +0000, Earl M. Herrick wrote:
> New question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
>
> I am running Ubuntu Hardy with a Samsung ML-1740 printer. I have the Unicode 5.0 book with a CD that is supposed to contain all of the characters. The info on the CD says that any Unix system may be used to read most files on it. However, the instructions are obviously written to be read by someone who already knows what the result will be, which is no help to me. (I've written in several higher level languages for 40 years, but I've always been careful to comment my programs carefully so that a newbie could know what does what. And the info on the Readme files on this CD have flummoxed me.)
>
> All I want to do is to get the characters loaded into my Ubuntu Hardy so that I can access them by SHIFT+CTRL and U and load them into OpenOffice files containing my own research work and then print them. Can anyone tell me what I really need to do and to get? Thanx muchly.
>

Thank you extremely much. I had no idea what was hiding under applications -> accessories. However, I still have a problem. The listings there are much like the listings in the Unicode book that I have, but when I have located the character that I want to use, I do not see any place to click on to say, in effect "Insert this character". Is such a place hiding somewhere else, or do I still have to load the characters from the CD so that my machine will have them? So far the listing in the accessories list is not much more use than my copy of the Unicode book.
Again, many thanks,
Earl M. Herrick

--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Vikram <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Vikram <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #92624]: Loading Unicode under Ubuntu
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 9:25 PM

Your question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624

    Status: Open => Answered

Vikram proposed the following answer:
One thing you can do is go to applications -> accessories and then go to
character map. That has a lot of the unicode characters most commonly
used so hope that helps :)

--
Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 20:41 +0000, Earl M. Herrick wrote:
> New question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
>
> I am running Ubuntu Hardy with a Samsung ML-1740 printer. I have the Unicode 5.0 book with a CD that is supposed to contain all of the characters. The info on the CD says that any Unix system may be used to read most files on it. However, the instructions are obviously written to be read by someone who already knows what the result will be, which is no help to me. (I've written in several higher level languages for 40 years, but I've always been careful to comment my programs carefully so that a newbie could know what does what. And the info on the Readme files on this CD have flummoxed me.)
>
> All I want to do is to get the characters loaded into my Ubuntu Hardy so that I can access them by SHIFT+CTRL and U and load them into OpenOffice files containing my own research work and then print them. Can anyone tell me what I really need to do and to get? Thanx muchly.
>

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Okay, this might be a pain to type, but here's how to do it: Press Ctrl+
Shift + U + hexcode. The hex-code is at the bottom of the window, left
corner when you click on the letter

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 18:39 +0000, Earl M. Herrick wrote:
> Question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> Earl M. Herrick is still having a problem:
> Thank you extremely much. I had no idea what was hiding under applications -> accessories. However, I still have a problem. The listings there are much like the listings in the Unicode book that I have, but when I have located the character that I want to use, I do not see any place to click on to say, in effect "Insert this character". Is such a place hiding somewhere else, or do I still have to load the characters from the CD so that my machine will have them? So far the listing in the accessories list is not much more use than my copy of the Unicode book.
> Again, many thanks,
> Earl M. Herrick
>
> --- On Wed, 12/2/09, Vikram <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> From: Vikram <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Question #92624]: Loading Unicode under Ubuntu
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 9:25 PM
>
> Your question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Vikram proposed the following answer:
> One thing you can do is go to applications -> accessories and then go to
> character map. That has a lot of the unicode characters most commonly
> used so hope that helps :)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Vikram Dhillon
>
>
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 20:41 +0000, Earl M. Herrick wrote:
> > New question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
> >
> > I am running Ubuntu Hardy with a Samsung ML-1740 printer. I have the Unicode 5.0 book with a CD that is supposed to contain all of the characters. The info on the CD says that any Unix system may be used to read most files on it. However, the instructions are obviously written to be read by someone who already knows what the result will be, which is no help to me. (I've written in several higher level languages for 40 years, but I've always been careful to comment my programs carefully so that a newbie could know what does what. And the info on the Readme files on this CD have flummoxed me.)
> >
> > All I want to do is to get the characters loaded into my Ubuntu Hardy so that I can access them by SHIFT+CTRL and U and load them into OpenOffice files containing my own research work and then print them. Can anyone tell me what I really need to do and to get? Thanx muchly.
> >
>

The problem is that, for some of the Unicode characters, I can type SHIFT+CTRL U four-digit code and get a character that shows on my screen and also prints. But for most of the Unicode characters, when I do that all I get is a blank or a rectangle on the screen or the printout. So something isn't in my machine.

I assume what I need to do is to somehow (and that's what I want to find out) move the description of lots of characters from the CD in the back of the Unicode 5.o book into my machine. And the instructions that are on the Readme files on that CD are what I can't figure out.

Earl Herrick

--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Vikram <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Vikram <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #92624]: Loading Unicode under Ubuntu
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 2:39 PM

Your question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624

    Status: Open => Answered

Vikram proposed the following answer:
Okay, this might be a pain to type, but here's how to do it: Press Ctrl+
Shift + U + hexcode. The hex-code is at the bottom of the window, left
corner when you click on the letter

--
Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 18:39 +0000, Earl M. Herrick wrote:
> Question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
>
>     Status: Answered => Open
>
> Earl M. Herrick is still having a problem:
> Thank you extremely much. I had no idea what was hiding under applications -> accessories. However, I still have a problem. The listings there are much like the listings in the Unicode book that I have, but when I have located the character that I want to use, I do not see any place to click on to say, in effect "Insert this character". Is such a place hiding somewhere else, or do I still have to load the characters from the CD so that my machine will have them? So far the listing in the accessories list is not much more use than my copy of the Unicode book.
> Again, many thanks,
> Earl M. Herrick
>
> --- On Wed, 12/2/09, Vikram <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> From: Vikram <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Question #92624]: Loading Unicode under Ubuntu
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 9:25 PM
>
> Your question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
>
>     Status: Open => Answered
>
> Vikram proposed the following answer:
> One thing you can do is go to applications -> accessories and then go to
> character map. That has a lot of the unicode characters most commonly
> used so hope that helps :)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Vikram Dhillon
>
>
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 20:41 +0000, Earl M. Herrick wrote:
> > New question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
> >
> > I am running Ubuntu Hardy with a Samsung ML-1740 printer. I have the Unicode 5.0 book with a CD that is supposed to contain all of the characters. The info on the CD says that any Unix system may be used to read most files on it. However, the instructions are obviously written to be read by someone who already knows what the result will be, which is no help to me. (I've written in several higher level languages for 40 years, but I've always been careful to comment my programs carefully so that a newbie could know what does what. And the info on the Readme files on this CD have flummoxed me.)
> >
> > All I want to do is to get the characters loaded into my Ubuntu Hardy so that I can access them by SHIFT+CTRL and U and load them into OpenOffice files containing my own research work and then print them. Can anyone tell me what I really need to do and to get? Thanx muchly.
> >
>

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How about this [1]

[1]
http://distilledb.com/blog/archives/date/2009/03/06/typing-special-characters-in-ubuntu.page

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 05:26 +0000, Earl M. Herrick wrote:
> Question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> Earl M. Herrick is still having a problem:
> The problem is that, for some of the Unicode characters, I can type
> SHIFT+CTRL U four-digit code and get a character that shows on my screen
> and also prints. But for most of the Unicode characters, when I do that
> all I get is a blank or a rectangle on the screen or the printout. So
> something isn't in my machine.
>
> I assume what I need to do is to somehow (and that's what I want to find
> out) move the description of lots of characters from the CD in the back
> of the Unicode 5.o book into my machine. And the instructions that are
> on the Readme files on that CD are what I can't figure out.
>
> Earl Herrick
>
>
> --- On Thu, 12/3/09, Vikram <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> From: Vikram <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Question #92624]: Loading Unicode under Ubuntu
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 2:39 PM
>
> Your question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Vikram proposed the following answer:
> Okay, this might be a pain to type, but here's how to do it: Press Ctrl+
> Shift + U + hexcode. The hex-code is at the bottom of the window, left
> corner when you click on the letter
>
> --
> Regards,
> Vikram Dhillon
>
>
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 18:39 +0000, Earl M. Herrick wrote:
> > Question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
> >
> > Status: Answered => Open
> >
> > Earl M. Herrick is still having a problem:
> > Thank you extremely much. I had no idea what was hiding under applications -> accessories. However, I still have a problem. The listings there are much like the listings in the Unicode book that I have, but when I have located the character that I want to use, I do not see any place to click on to say, in effect "Insert this character". Is such a place hiding somewhere else, or do I still have to load the characters from the CD so that my machine will have them? So far the listing in the accessories list is not much more use than my copy of the Unicode book.
> > Again, many thanks,
> > Earl M. Herrick
> >
> > --- On Wed, 12/2/09, Vikram <email address hidden> wrote:
> >
> > From: Vikram <email address hidden>
> > Subject: Re: [Question #92624]: Loading Unicode under Ubuntu
> > To: <email address hidden>
> > Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 9:25 PM
> >
> > Your question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
> >
> > Status: Open => Answered
> >
> > Vikram proposed the following answer:
> > One thing you can do is go to applications -> accessories and then go to
> > character map. That has a lot of the unicode characters most commonly
> > used so hope that helps :)
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Vikram Dhillon
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 20:41 +0000, Earl M. Herrick wrote:
> > > New question #92624 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu:
> > > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/92624
> > >
> > > I am running Ubuntu Hardy with a Samsung ML-1740 printer. I have the Unicode 5.0 book with a CD that is supposed to contain all of the characters. The info on the CD says that any Unix system may be used to read most files on it. However, the instructions are obviously written to be read by someone who already knows what the result will be, which is no help to me. (I've written in several higher level languages for 40 years, but I've always been careful to comment my programs carefully so that a newbie could know what does what. And the info on the Readme files on this CD have flummoxed me.)
> > >
> > > All I want to do is to get the characters loaded into my Ubuntu Hardy so that I can access them by SHIFT+CTRL and U and load them into OpenOffice files containing my own research work and then print them. Can anyone tell me what I really need to do and to get? Thanx muchly.
> > >
> >
>