[oXygen-user] How to type an UTF8 symbol in text as well as in author mode
Bernhard Kleine
bernhard.kleine at gmx.net
Mon Feb 19 11:33:21 CST 2018
That was a difficult birth. But it works now. Thanks you so much for
your patience. Now It will be very easy to program some function keys on
the Logitech keyboard to shortcut the use of the mouse.
Best regards
Bernhard
Am 19.02.2018 um 16:28 schrieb Eliot Kimber:
>
> The (hex.) column is the UTF-8 encoding of the character, that is, the
> sequence of bytes.
>
>
>
> The actual Unicode character number is the value in the first column,
> e.g., \u2190.
>
>
>
> So you should be able to type 2190 and get the character you want.
>
>
>
> Unicode is the character set and the character numbers (code points)
> are independent of how the characters are encoded.
>
>
>
> The encoding is how the characters are translated to bytes when
> written as a byte sequence.
>
>
>
> The Unicode standard defines a number of encodings, including UTF-8
> and UTF-16.
>
>
>
> So there are not “UTF-8 characters”, only UTF-8 encodings of Unicode
> characters.
>
>
>
> The UTF-8 encoding was designed so that it is identical to ASCII for
> the first 127 or 255 characters (depending on which version of ASCII
> you’re looking at). But after character 255 it takes at least 3 bytes
> to encode a character.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> E.
>
> --
>
> Eliot Kimber
>
> http://contrext.com
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *oXygen-user <oxygen-user-bounces at oxygenxml.com> on behalf of
> Bernhard Kleine <bernhard.kleine at gmx.net>
> *Date: *Monday, February 19, 2018 at 9:17 AM
> *To: *<oxygen-user at oxygenxml.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [oXygen-user] How to type an UTF8 symbol in text as
> well as in author mode
>
>
>
> The UTF8 table at
> http://www.utf8-zeichentabelle.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=8592shows
> 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:
>
> cid:part1.482BC927.158A9BBD at gmx.net
>
> (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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