How do I...

[RbnJrg]

How do I enter/write Unicode symbols under Linux? In other programs, I press Ctrl+Shift+u and then type the Unicode code, followed by a spacebar or Enter key, but that keys combination doesn't work in Sigil.

[KevinH]

Do you mean in Find and Replace or in CodeView or ...?

[DiapDealer]

Ctrl+Shift+u is baked right into GTK-based desktops such as Gnome or Cinnamon via ibus. But that may not help if you use KDE/Plasma (or something else). You might want to make sure ibus (Intelligent Input Bus) is installed.

[DiapDealer]

Ctrl+Shift+u works for me in many Linux applications, but it doesn't seem to work for me in Sigil's Code View.

[KevinH]

If you are desperate, one way that works in CodeView is to simply create an hex valued entity like this one for the euro (remove spaces) & # x 2 0 a c ;

Then when ready, just run Mend and all numeric entities will be changed to their real character (unless you specified otherwise in your Preserve Entities preferences settings).

I often do that when I am in a rush.

[DiapDealer]

After making sure ibus was installed, I was able to get things working by creating an .xprofile file in my home directory with the following contents:

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus"
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
ibus-daemon -x -d

Log out and back in for good measure. It worked for both the AppImage version of Sigil and the regularly installed version. Hope something there helps!

[DiapDealer]

I can't remember the unicode codes any better than I can remember entities, so I still resort to using a character map app to copy/paste from.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by RbnJrg

How do I enter/write Unicode symbols under Linux? In other programs, I press Ctrl+Shift+u and then type the Unicode code, followed by a spacebar or Enter key, but that keys combination doesn't work in Sigil.

IIRC, in Linux, you can use XCompose to create custom keyboard keyboard combinations for pretty much any character.
(AFAIK, the Windows key is the compose key.)
For more information, see the following pages:
https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ComposeKey

I use Wincompose on my Windows machine. Theoretically, the config files should be compatible with the Linux XCompose.

[RbnJrg]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

After making sure ibus was installed, I was able to get things working by creating an .xprofile file in my home directory with the following contents:

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus"
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
ibus-daemon -x -d

Log out and back in for good measure. It worked for both the AppImage version of Sigil and the regularly installed version. Hope something there helps!

Thank you very much, it works great everywhere!! Not only in CodeView but also in .css stylesheets and .js files. And also works in all programs!!

[RbnJrg]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

IIRC, in Linux, you can use XCompose to create custom keyboard keyboard combinations for pretty much any character.
(AFAIK, the Windows key is the compose key.)
For more information, see the following pages:
https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ComposeKey

I use Wincompose on my Windows machine. Theoretically, the config files should be compatible with the Linux XCompose.

Many thanks for this tip, that I didn't know. Indeed, a very useful way of mapping frequently used characters, which I am going to start using! Now I have two methods that complement each other very well to enter any type of character.