special characters in open office

[Jan Claeys]

Op donderdag 20-12-2007 om 08:35 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef
aerospace1028 at hotmail.com:
> Greetings all,I have a question about accessing the special characters
> dialog in open office document writer.
> I have been playing around with an Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon live CD
> for the past few days.  I am having trouble in the special characters
> dialog found in the insert menu.  From what I gather, there are two
> combo boxes; one for selecting font style and another for the
> character subset (latin extended, greek, etc).  I can work with both
> of these fine.  The problem is with the character field where I'm
> supposed to arrow around and pick the character I want.  Orca doesn't
> seem to tell me what character I am on.

That sounds like an accessibility-bug in OpenOffice.org?

> Is there a trick to this dialog that I don't know?  or is there an
> alternate manner of entering special characters?  The windows
> equivalent allows the user to enter the unicode value for the
> character but I don't see anything like that here.

If you know the hexadecimal "Unicode number" of the character, you can
use Ctrl+Shift+U, then enter the hexadecimal number, followed by space
or return.


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Jan Claeys