In my technical writing of claims for private and public client entities I often use the characters for (c) copyright, ™ trademark, and (r) registered and similar references. I also often use “¶” and “§”, symbols which are included with Characters.
Where did it come from to be included, copied and pasted herein, and why is it not in the Character list for use on the Ubuntu / Linux distribution?
Is there a way to add these, or to whom do we offer feedback to in order to have such additions addressed?
Also: once in the list, how do we use a keyboard shortcut to access these symbols… I used to do so with an “ALT+####” reference. I haven’t figured out how to do that with Linux. Any suggestions?
Thanks for letting me know that issue is addressed with v24.04; much appreciated. Also, using the search tool finds these symbols in the Characters list for 20.04, they just aren’t included in the “lists” anywhere. If you don’t know to use the search, a visual review of what’s available looks like these are not included.
NOTES: I’m on Ubuntu 20.04… when I loaded v22 it presented problems. I don’t think I’ve attempted upgrade to 24.04 for fear of the same debilitating issues.
I’ve looked at the other symbols I commonly use, AND these are suggesting codes which also include CAPITAL characters for Unicode reference rather than lower case characters in the Unicode map… which don’t work. It’s misleading as well as frustrating atop the vast list of things that are different here in Linux with which we, the inexperienced and presently educating, are burdened.
Are these items addressed and corrected with Characters 46.0? I wonder how many other symbols and Unicode references are incorrect for others that access other items in that app.
the Ctrl+Shift+u does not work with sticky keys. if you are using sticky keys type this the usual way by holding Ctrl+Shift down and press u and type the hex code.
In defence, I think those instructions reference pressing actual keys marked on the keyboard:
“Ctrl+Shift+U 0 0 A 9” not “Ctrl+Shift+U 0 0 Shift+A 9”.
Note that you don’t need to type the leading zeros: “Ctrl+Shift+U, A, 9” followed by Space or Enter will do.
I gather some people keep a text file with their common usage special characters on it so they can use copy+paste easily. I’ve done that on occastions.
Perhaps, though the main issue having been solved, “where are these characters and how are they accessed”, what remains is clarification for users who follow.
In Linux “a” is NOT synonymous with “A”, regardless of whether the A-key on the keyboard appears as “A”… it looks capital and is interpreted as a CAPITAL, and shouldn’t the keyboard shortcuts on the character description lead users to the usable “00a9” rather than “00A9” which does not work?
I think it’s worthy of mention that the “ANSWER” post to this querry by @tea-for-one specifically expresses the “u” and the “a” as lower case… key to the solution.
Open ‘Settings’ select ‘Keyboard’ click on 3 dots near keyboard, select ‘View Keyboard Layout’ you see 4 keyboard layouts with a lot of special character you can select pressing AltGr+character or Upper+AltGr+character
