[ale] Ubuntu Edgy? Anyone?

Paul Cartwright paul_tbot at pcartwright.com
Fri Sep 8 12:08:18 EDT 2006


On Sun September 3 2006 1:44 pm, fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man wrote:
> Is anyone here using Ubuntu Edgy?
>
I just installed it on a test server.
added firefox Bon Echo 2.0b1

amazing, forecastfox installs on it, but still not seamonkey.

I'm not into Unicode, give me an example and I'll try it.

> If so...
>
> Dapper supported something where you could directly input Unicode
> characters by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Unicode Code Point.  However, I
> cannot do this under Edgy.  Would anyone know why that is?  I really
> like the ability to type "properly."  I have (almost) the same
> keyboard layout, though they have obsoleted us_intl apparently, so I
> have a new version of that, and I do not know if maybe that has
> something to do with it. However, I cannot type anything that is not
> on the keyboard layout anymore, which means that proper open/close
> quotes (both single and double) are out, as are em dashes, en
> dashes, and anything else that I may want to use in my writing. 
> This is frustrating!
>
> Any ideas?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Mike
>
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