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A text editor for programmers
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Ctrl+Shift+U should allow entering arbitrary ☆ unicode ☀ characters ☠ #43

Closed vi closed 11 years ago

vi commented 12 years ago

As expected for a Qt program, Enki does not handle Ctrl+Shift+U.

Underlined "u" should appear and further typed hex digits should underlined. Pressing Space or Return should accept the input. For example, underlined "u10392" should convert to the character that looks like three black triangles (cannot insert it here because of Comment contains unicode characters above 0xffff github error). Backspace should erase hex digits. Erasing underlined "u" or pressing Escape should escape to normal input mode.

P.S. insert this and other funny characters like U+E0020 into Enki and see other bugs.

andreikop commented 12 years ago

Why do you need this unicode symbols? 29.08.2012 18:52 пользователь "Vitaly Shukela" notifications@github.com написал:

As expected for a Qt program, Enki does not handle Ctrl+Shift+U.

Underlined "u" should appear and further typed hex digits should underlined. Pressing Space or Return should accept the input. For example, underlined "u10392" should convert to the character that looks like three black triangles (cannot insert it here because of Comment contains unicode characters above 0xffff github error). Backspace should erase hex digits. Erasing underlined "u" or pressing Escape should escape to normal input mode.

P.S. insert this and other funny characters like U+E0020 into Enki and see other bugs.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/hlamer/enki/issues/43.

vi commented 12 years ago

I use characters sometimes to make program output more pretty, to decorate code, etc. It's good to be able to input them easily avoiding copying and pasting again and again. Over-U+FFFF-characters were mentioned just to remind that they exist and should be taken into account.

Probably prio1 is to showing all unicode characters correctly (currently it breaks text layout in messy way) and prio2 is input.

The actual priority is up to you, of course.

andreikop commented 11 years ago

Unicode characters, listed here, are drawn correctly now.

There are not so many free keyboard shortcuts. For now, Ctrl+Shift+U will be used as Undo close file. I don't think programmers often insert unicode characters with this sequence. Might change in the future, if many users ask about it.

Btw, Qt Creator also uses Ctrl+Shift+U as action shortcut.