[scribus] Special characters in search-and-replace dialog [1.3.5svn]

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:24:24 -0400
Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> dijo:

> Matt Gushee wrote:
> > Just wondering if there is a way to specify special characters in a 
> > search-and-replace in the story editor. E.g., suppose I want to 
> > replace all occurrences of "--" with em dashes. Is there a way to 
> > insert these in the text fields in the dialog (other than inserting 
> > the desired character in the main editor window, then cutting and 
> > pasting)?

> For characters you cannot enter from the keyboard, there are only 
> variations of what you're suggesting. In KDE there is KCharSelect, which 
> allows you to copy a character to Klipper, then paste.
> 
> BTW, you can also do Search/Replace in the main window while in Select 
> Item mode.

I do not use Scribus often, and never do my writing in Scribus, but I
am amazed that I cannot enter characters by Unicode character. I'm
using 1.3.3.11 on Ubuntu Hardy. If I want to enter, say, an ñ (that's
n-tilde in case it doesn't appear in your mail client), I just type
Ctrl-shift-u, then F1 and a space. (F1 is the Unicode number for the
n-tilde.) That works in just about any program in Linux. But in Scribus
it does not work. Ctrl-shift-u does nothing at all.

If I write the text in OOo I can certainly type in characters by
Unicode number. And when I copy and paste the text into Scribus the
characters are there. But it is seriously limiting not to be able to
enter characters by Unicode number directly into Scribus.

Or have I missed something?