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How can I insert a character code into a Linux text editor?

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Mar 15, 202613694 views
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Problem

I need a lightweight GUI text editor on my Ubuntu Lucid system which lets me specify a Unicode code point (e.g. ), and inserts that character to a UTF-8 text document. I know that can't do it (not even with the Character Map plugin). I'm not interested in solutions involving any kind of or . I'm al…

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U+1234

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I've found a solution which works in gedit and in the text input boxes of many other GTK-based applications. I press Ctrl+Shift+U, type the character code in hex, then I press Enter, and the character appears.

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