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Bug 769327 - Cannot enter character via shift-ctrl-u shortcut
Cannot enter character via shift-ctrl-u shortcut
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gucharmap
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gucharmap maintainers
gucharmap maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-07-30 11:32 UTC by Jeroen Hoek
Modified: 2016-10-05 20:11 UTC
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Description Jeroen Hoek 2016-07-30 11:32:56 UTC 
In most Gnome applications I can use shift-ctrl-u to directly enter a character via its Unicode codepoint. So, for example, to enter the character € via this method, one does:

shift-ctrl-u 2 0 A C enter

This works in gedit and gnome-terminal today.

I use this often in gucharmap when dealing with a character I don't recognize, and can't easily directly copy from the source. Since updating to Ubuntu 16.04, the gucharmap version shipped has started to ignore the shift-ctrl-u shortcut in the search text field.

Any idea what caused this regression? Is this a gtk issue or did something change in gucharmap?

Version: 3.18.2
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2016-07-30 16:56:25 UTC 
Works here on gucharmap with gtk+ master.  Maybe a ubuntu specific bug; have you filed this on launchpad?
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2016-09-19 20:09:48 UTC 
Well?
Comment 3 Jeroen Hoek 2016-09-20 19:59:37 UTC 
Filed with Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gucharmap/+bug/1625790

I am seeing this bug in Ubuntu 16.04 with the latest gucharmap available there (3.18.2).