{"id":1477,"date":"2013-02-12T11:21:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T09:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raftaman.net\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:38","slug":"inserting-arbitrary-unicode-characters-to-kwrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Inserting arbitrary unicode characters to kwrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While you can normally <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicode_input\">insert arbitrary unicode characters<\/a> to any X11 application using Ctrl-Shift-u and four hex digits, it doesn&#8217;t work in kwrite or kate. Instead you&#8217;d have to <strong>press F7<\/strong> to switch to command line and type in <\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nchar &lt;unicode&gt;\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>For example, to get the degree symbol (Unicode: U+00B0) you&#8217;d type in <code>'char 176'<\/code> (176 being 0xB0 converted do decimal).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While you can normally insert arbitrary unicode characters to any X11 application using Ctrl-Shift-u and four hex digits, it doesn&#8217;t work in kwrite or kate. Instead you&#8217;d have to press F7 to switch to command line and type in char &lt;unicode&gt; For example, to get the degree symbol (Unicode: U+00B0) you&#8217;d type in &#8216;char 176&#8217; (176 being 0xB0 converted do&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=1477\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,21],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kde","tag-utf8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}