[oXygen-user] How to type an UTF8 symbol in text as well as in author mode

[Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex]

You probably need to enter the codepoint’s hex value (0x2192) rather 
than its UTF-8 representation.

On 19/02/2018 16:17, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> The UTF8 table at 
> http://www.utf8-zeichentabelle.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=8592 shows 
> this first four lines.
> 
> Unicode
> Codepos. 	Zeichen 	UTF-8
> (hex.) 	Name
> U+2190 	← 	e2 86 90 	LEFTWARDS ARROW
> U+2191 	↑ 	e2 86 91 	UPWARDS ARROW
> U+2192 	→ 	e2 86 92 	RIGHTWARDS ARROW
> U+2193 	↓ 	e2 86 93 	DOWNWARDS ARROW
> 
> When I tried to change a utf8 hex value in a simple doc, using 
> Ctrl-Shift-X, I get:
> 
> (not a valid hexadecimal sequence to change)
> 
> I also tried the 0x1F926 from Bens example below. The same error. What 
> do I wrong?
> 
> These arrows would be a good example since they will be used.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> 
> Am 19.02.2018 um 10:03 schrieb Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the reminder Ben.
>> Indeed I forgot about this feature in Oxygen:
>>
>> https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/19.1/ug-editor/topics/text-mode-actions.html#text-mode-actions__convert-hex-sequence 
>>
>>
>> which basically allows you to type away the hex digits in Oxygen and 
>> then invoke the special "Convert Hexadecimal Sequence to Character" 
>> action.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Radu
>>
>> Radu Coravu
>> <oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>
>> On 2/19/2018 10:56 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:33:28AM +0200, Oxygen XML Editor Support 
>>> (Radu Coravu)  wrote:
>>>> Hi Bernhard,
>>>>
>>>> It seems that for "nbsp" which has the decimal equivalent "160" you 
>>>> would
>>>> need to type "ALT" and then "0160", that leading "0" seems to be 
>>>> important.
>>>> The same probably for all other characters, type their decimal 
>>>> equivalent
>>>> but it needs to be four typed figures.
>>>
>>> Oh, how quickly we forget certain things.  :)
>>>
>>> oXygen has had the ability to enter UTF-8 characters in the first
>>> plane by their four character hexadecimal code point value since
>>> version 17.1.  I can't recall what the default hotkey is for invoking
>>> it because I changed mine (back) to F8 as soon as I installed that
>>> version.  I believe I've still got the plugin you guys provided me
>>> during my trial period for 17.0.
>>>
>>> Anyway, if Bernhard is happy with using hex instead of int, that's the
>>> solution instead of the Windows alt sequences (or the Mac alt/option
>>> sequences either, for that matter).
>>>
>>> ....
> 
>>> bash-4.4$ unum.pl 0x1f926
>>>    Octal  Decimal      Hex        HTML    Character   Unicode
>>>  0374446   129318  0x1F926   🤦    "🤦"         FACE PALM
>>> bash-4.4$
>>>
>>> Obviously some of us can see that character properly and some can't,
>>> but you all know which it is.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>>
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