I ran across this post from Aaron Toponce explaining how to enter Unicode characters in Linux applications. Hold down the shift and control keys while typing “u” and the hex values of the Unicode character you wish to enter. I tried this and it worked in Firefox, GEdit, and Gnome Terminal, but not in OpenOffice. I was running Ubuntu 7.10.
See also Three ways to enter Unicode characters in Windows.
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Patrick 10.23.08 at 09:44
Thank you very much for this informational post.
Alan Haggai Alavi 12.26.08 at 21:39
Thank you very much. However, this method works only for Gnome/GTK+ applications. I have not yet found a way to do so in KDE.
Drew LeSueur 12.04.09 at 02:31
Thank you! It works great
Now I can make characters like this λ
hookdump 02.07.10 at 13:21
Thank you so much!!! ♥ xD
Frank 05.18.11 at 22:52
thanks John
yes it works on firefox
also it does fabulously well on Google “Chrom”ium browser
I’m using Ubuntu 11.04
Aram 07.14.11 at 09:40
There is another method for entering a Unicode character, which works in Firefox, gedit and OpenOffice. (tested on Ubuntu 10.04).
Press and release Ctrl+Shift+U, then enter the hexadecimal code of the symbol and press Enter.