> And/or introduce a magic key (Meta-U or something) > which permits to type hexadecimal Unicode values. But this key exists already! (Since 1.1.54.) (Look at your keymap, symbols Hex_0 ... Hex_F. By default, generate them by pressing AltGr and typing on the number pad, and releasing AltGr again.) Andries - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/