Gnome's Character Map

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From: Robert Rothenberg
Subject: Gnome's Character Map
Date: 20:01 on 14 Dec 2006
I'm using a mere UK or US keyboard to type in exotic Roman characters used
for non-English languages.

Fine, there's Gnome's Character Map, which makes the process of finding an
accented character difficult by never remembering the last Script or Font
one used (or allowing one to set a preferred font).  So I have to scroll
down the list a couple of pages of a few dozen character sets that I will
rarely if ever use (such as Armenian or Khmer) until I get to the Latin
script.  Every f***ing time I run the program.

It's probably a safe assumption for most users that if the system is
configured for a certain language (such as English) that it should prefer
the character set for that language.

How hard is it to remember the last script used, or add an option to put the
most used choices on top?

I could use the search function and look for "L with Stroke" (if I remember
what the particular accent is called) but after typing all of that in, I may
as well search for it manually.

I tried Gnome Character Palette, but it just doesn't work.

I don't know if Gnome or Xfce supports typing in the unicode number like
Windows does, but that's no help if I don't remember the code.

Grr.

Rob

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