#6243 (Ctrl+Shift+U for entering Unicode chars is disabled in LibreOffice)
by Luc Saffre · in Developers · assigned to Luc Saffre
Résumé
I often need Ctrl+Shift+U for entering certain characters that don't exist on Estonian keyboards, e.g. ß in German or ê and ç in French. This works anywhere in Ubuntu (except text terminals). But in LO it stopped to work some versions ago.
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- 1 année, 2 mois ago by Luc Saffre about #6243 (Ctrl+Shift+U for entering Unicode chars is disabled in LibreOffice) : Ha! I don't need to switch from KDE to Gnome. Here is the Solution: sudo apt install libreoffice-gnome Open the LO Writer entry in the KDE Menu editor and add SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 in the Environment field
- 1 année, 2 mois ago by Luc Saffre about #6243 (Ctrl+Shift+U for entering Unicode chars is disabled in LibreOffice) : And I got answers: the culprit isn't LO but KDE. For example Kate also doesn't support Ctrl+Shit+U. LO has an Alt+X trick as a workaround. I might try to switch from KDE to Gnome but I fear that this would be considerable effort.
- 1 année, 2 mois ago by Luc Saffre about #6243 (Ctrl+Shift+U for entering Unicode chars is disabled in LibreOffice) (1 reply) : I opened an account on Bugzilla, but before reporting a regression I'd like to understand more about my distribution. Is Tuxedo equivalent to Ubuntu?
- 1 année, 2 mois ago by Luc Saffre about #6243 (Ctrl+Shift+U for entering Unicode chars is disabled in LibreOffice) : One feedback on ask.libreoffice.org is to "try with a flatpack installation". Here is what my computer replied. What does this mean? Should I try?
$ flatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice Looking for matches…
org.libreoffice.LibreOffice permissions: ipc network fallback-x11 pulseaudio ... - 1 année, 2 mois ago by Luc Saffre about #6243 (Ctrl+Shift+U for entering Unicode chars is disabled in LibreOffice) : I added a post to this discussion:
I confirm this issue. This seemingly innocent issue makes me avoid LO. I often need Ctrl+Shift+U for entering certain characters that don't exist on my keyboard, e.g. ß in German or ê and ç in French. This works everywhere in Ubuntu (where unicode characters are su... - 1 année, 2 mois ago by Luc Saffre about #6243 (Ctrl+Shift+U for entering Unicode chars is disabled in LibreOffice) : Here I found a helpful relief: "You could use the LO internal way, type u+hexdigits (e.g. u+df) and hit Alt+X.
- 1 année, 2 mois ago by Luc Saffre about #6243 (Ctrl+Shift+U for entering Unicode chars is disabled in LibreOffice) : Created new Ticket #6243 (Sh+Ctrl+U for entering Unicode chars is broken in LibreOffice).