I want to add a bit of text to an image with the degree character, to 
indicate an angle. I'm using Gimp on a Sun running Solaris (UNIX).

Can anyone tell me how to do it? If the worst comes to the worst, I 
could put it on a PC, if that had any chance of working.

I tried a tick I recall from the DOS days, of holding down the ALT key 
at the same time as entering the number 248 on the numerical keypad. 
That does not work on my UNIX system. I've not tried it on a Windows one.

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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:26:40 +0100, Dave (from the UK) wrote:

> I want to add a bit of text to an image with the degree character, to 
> indicate an angle. I'm using Gimp on a Sun running Solaris (UNIX).
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to do it? If the worst comes to the worst, I 
> could put it on a PC, if that had any chance of working.
> 
> I tried a tick I recall from the DOS days, of holding down the ALT key 
> at the same time as entering the number 248 on the numerical keypad. 
> That does not work on my UNIX system. I've not tried it on a Windows one.

Does your system have a character map app that copies to the clipboard?
and
Can your system paste from clipboard into the Gimp text editor window
using ctrl-v or equivalent?

This is what I use for all non-standard symbols on my linux system as the
very useful windoze alt-'keypad code' does not work.

-- 
rich

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Dave (from the UK) wrote:

> I want to add a bit of text to an image with the degree character, to indicate
> an angle. I'm using Gimp on a Sun running Solaris (UNIX).

  compose ^ 0
  compose 0 ^

That's a zero, not an O.

> I tried a tick I recall from the DOS days, of holding down the ALT key at the
> same time as entering the number 248 on the numerical keypad. That does not
> work on my UNIX system.

  echo "\0260"

0260 = 176 = 0xB0
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT

Dave (from the UK) wrote:
> I want to add a bit of text to an image with the degree character, to 
> indicate an angle. I'm using Gimp on a Sun running Solaris (UNIX).
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to do it? If the worst comes to the worst, I 
> could put it on a PC, if that had any chance of working.
> 
> I tried a tick I recall from the DOS days, of holding down the ALT key 
> at the same time as entering the number 248 on the numerical keypad. 
> That does not work on my UNIX system. I've not tried it on a Windows one.
> 

You can still do that trick on DOS/Windows.  I've never heard of a 
similar trick in Sun hardware or software.  If you're really desperate, 
you could write the value 248 to a one byte file and then cut/paste it.

On 2007-09-21, Andreas Prilop <Prilop2007@trashmail.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Dave (from the UK) wrote:
>
>> I want to add a bit of text to an image with the degree character, to indicate
>> an angle. I'm using Gimp on a Sun running Solaris (UNIX).
>
>   compose ^ 0
>   compose 0 ^
>
> That's a zero, not an O.
>
>> I tried a tick I recall from the DOS days, of holding down the ALT key at the
>> same time as entering the number 248 on the numerical keypad. That does not
>> work on my UNIX system.
>
>   echo "\0260"
>
> 0260 = 176 = 0xB0
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT

What input are you using. In GIMP, start a text box, and in the
text input region, right click. Is it IPA (or, probably, DEFAULT
will work)?

If so, it is pretty much the same as windows but ...
HEX and you hold down SHIFT-CONTROL and what font?
My locale is not set to UTF8, so your mileage may vary.

Looking at the code for the degree symbol in the special character
tool in openoffice, I see it is BA (hex) (186 decimal).

In GIMP, using the text tool and with the cursor in the text input
box in the text input window, holding down SHIFT-CONTROL while
typing BA and then releasing the SHIFT-CONTROL gives me the
degree symbol (I used the Times New Roman font from my old Win98
partition which I installed in Linux).

Check using 41 (hex - 65 decimal) the code for "A" (which should be
available and the same in all fonts, except for special symbol fonts,
of course).

Your configuration may vary (e.g. if your GUI modifies things - I use
a lightweight windows manager, ICE).

Well ... the above is for Linux ... check out the input methods available
(right click in the text input area).

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Spamless wrote:

>> 0260 = 176 = 0xB0
>> http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT
>
> Looking at the code for the degree symbol in the special character
> tool in openoffice, I see it is BA (hex) (186 decimal).

  0272 = 186 = 0xBA

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Dave (from the UK) wrote:
> I want to add a bit of text to an image with the degree character, to 
> indicate an angle. I'm using Gimp on a Sun running Solaris (UNIX).
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to do it? If the worst comes to the worst, I 
> could put it on a PC, if that had any chance of working.
> 
> I tried a tick I recall from the DOS days, of holding down the ALT key 
> at the same time as entering the number 248 on the numerical keypad. 
> That does not work on my UNIX system. I've not tried it on a Windows one.
> 

I've not tried all the suggestions - but the 'Character Map' on the Sun, 
which can be found on the menus

Lauch -> Applications ->Accessories -> Character Map

did allow me to do it.

Thanks everyone.

FWIW, I'm using Solaris 10, on a Sun Ultra 80, with Gimp 2.2.12.

-- 
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On 21 Sep., 12:26, "Dave (from the UK)" <see-my-signat...@see-
below.com> wrote:

> I tried a tick I recall from the DOS days, of holding down the ALT key
> at the same time as entering the number 248 on the numerical keypad.
> That does not work on my UNIX system. I've not tried it on a Windows one.

Depending on the version of GTK+ you're using, it's either

Ctrl+Shift+unicode
or
Ctrl+Shift+U+unicode

C-S-U-2663 returns a clubs smybol, for example. This should work in
each GTK+ application.


HTH,
Michael