Quick Unicode

Thank you for the fine program! I have begun to use it.

I found that I can put Unicode characters (where I do not know the decimal entry) into a document in the following manner, once I have installed the Cardbox Quick Unicode Input tool, but is there an easier way?

1. I hold down Alt then press '.' on the keypad, to open the Windows Character Map, as you decribe
2. In the Character map window: I select 'Advanced view', and select the font I want to use
3. I select the Character set for the language containing the character I need
4. I search down for the character, then click it twice slowly (quick double-clicking does not work, it seems). Then I drag the selected character into the 'Characters to copy:' box in the 'Character Map' window.
5. I can add characters from the keyboard or another Character set to the same box, to complete the word.
6. I can then select the word and 'drag and drop' or 'copy and paste' it into a document.

Is there an easier way to do this?

I had the following issues:

How do I find the 'Character set' in which an unusual character occurs? Is there a search function, if I already have a Unicode character from the same but unknown set?

My first impression of using unusual Unicode characters in Google, are that many characters are not supported there. Do other language versions of Google exist?

The 'Characters to copy:' box in 'Character Map' is sometimes too narrow in height to show all of the characters I put into it.

Best wishes,
Christopher Spry
cspry@cspry.co.uk

Update: Google does have language options and these can be selected at http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en Once open, these language-specific pages do support searching with the words containing the characters specific for that language.

Christopher Spry
cspry@cspry.co.uk

In Windows XP, I have Unicode selected as the character set and I never need to change this, because Unicode contains all possible characters. In fact I don't use Advanced view: I just scroll through the list to find the character I want.

[Some of this behaviour may be different using different fonts, or using other versions of Windows].

There *is* a search feature at the bottom of the Advanced box. If I type "arrow" into it then I get all Unicode characters that have "arrow" in their name.

I can't comment on Google because you don't give an example of what you do, what happens when you do it, and how that differs from what you expect. I've searched in Polish and Greek and Russian without trouble.

Thanks for the tool; it's what i looked for.

Is it possible to install it without user interface (unattended)?

Regards,
Walter

No, I'm afraid I haven't put an unattended mode into the installer.

On the other hand, it should be fairly easy to write an appropriate program: at its simplest, all you need to do is to copy the .exe and .dll files into a directory and (optionally) put a reference to the .exe file into the user's Startup folder.

Hello,
I've downloaded and installed Quick Unicode, but...
Using Alt + . on the numeric pad I do get the interface as well as an icon in the systray.

However,
Using the Alt + any numeric combination does not give me the Unicode charaters I am looking for.

Cyrillic Unicode is 0400-0500 something..
the ? which is, according to Unicode.org's document U0400.pdf is U+0404. This is what I get; ?.

Why, what am I doing wrong.

I have both English and Russian keyboard layouts installed and am able to toggle between them and use my keyboard to write most letters, but the Ukraine have a few charaters that are indeed Cyrillic, but are not used in the Russian alphabet. This is why I looked into using Quick Unicode, it seemed a quick and easy fix to the few missing Cyrillic charaters.

Thank you in advance,
Landis Reed

Can you list the exact keystrokes you are using? I need to know every key between the time you depress Alt and the time you release Alt.

Also - which program are you typing these keys into?

Yes, thank you.

Alt + 0404 (number pad)w/o NumLock (I deselected NumLock option on systray icon)

Applications: FireFox, WordPad, HTML-Kit (my prefered Windows PHP editor) and Eudora, etc..

Again, thank you

Landis.

Alt 0 4 0 4 (Alt)
 means the character with code four hundred and four (hexadecimal U+0194). The Unicode charts describe this as "Latin Capital Letter Gamma", which is used in writing some African languages. If you have the right font active on your computer then you will see this as Ɣ.

Alt . 0 4 0 4 (Alt)
or
Alt . 4 0 4 (Alt)
 means the character with hexadecimal code U+0404: (code one thousand and twenty-eight). The Unicode charts describe this as "Cyrillic Capital Letter Ukrainian IE". If you have the right font active on your computer then you will see this as Є.

Alt 1 0 2 8 (Alt)
 means the same character.

Incidentally, Eudora can't understand Unicode, so trying to type Unicode characters into it won't work. Wordpad does understand Unicode; I don't know about the other programs you mention.

Thank YOU!!!!!!

I did not know about hitting the . (period) between the Alt press and my numbers... That would have been a simple instruction. Thanks.

From reading the first post here, I gathered that Alt + . would launch the keymap window, but did not put it together with enterning number codes...

Works as "advertised"

Thank you Again.

Landis.

One more question, please.

Yesterday or the day before, while looking for information about entering unicode directly, I came across a diagram of the numeric keypad that showed the operator keys (/, *, -, + and enter) as Letters for use codes that combine numbers and letters. For the life of me, I can not find this again (went through my links, history and did new searches). Does anyone here know what I'm talking about and where I can find it or something like it?

Thank you in advance,
Landis Reed.

Hello,
I decided I couldn't wait so...

I figured it out and made my own diagram.
I have put it on my website if anyone else is interested.

landisreed.com/files/keyboard_NumPad_Unicode.gif

Thanks,
Landis.

Your map is more elegant than ours! You'll find ours at:

http://www.cardbox.com/quick/instructions.htm.

CardBoss, Thank you.

You are welcome to it.

As I said I thought I searched everywhere I had been for the diagram.
Boy was I wrong... Here it was all along.. Duh..

Landis.