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To TYPE Unicode characters

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From: Mikael Persson
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:06
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Hi!

I use FrameMaker 8 on Windows XP.
I have scanned a two-volume Greek book and ran it through an OCR program. Not all of the transcription is correct, so I have to fix it. Some of the text is quoted from older books, so there's a lot of interesting combinations of diacritical marks, creating special characters. Most of them I have found in the font I use (Alkaios) and have no big trouble typing them with the corresponding key combinations.
Running charmap from the Run... field under Start I can see that also the rest of the characters are present in the Alkaios font. But I don't seem to find the combination of keys in FrameMaker to produce them (and probably those particular combinations are not implemented). And I can't use Alt+number, since that only works with ASCII characters, and the ones I'm after are far beyond those.
Searching the web, I found that what I'm supposed to type is U+number. The problem is that in any editor, typing a 'U' will present me with a 'U'. (Very logical and practical, since you sometimes also want to be able to type a 'U'!) Searching some more, I found that in for example OpenOffice the 'U' in the typing sequence should be translated as Ctrl+Shift (haven't tried it there, though), and I also found another editor in which it works that way. And in Word 2007 I actually CAN use Alt+number (the decimal numbers 0912 and 0944, in this case).
But in FM I can't use Alt+number, because I get a question mark or a ring, or something else. And I can't use Ctrl+Shift+number, because when I hit the zero key, FM tries to copy whatever is highlighted in the document (which i nothing, and hence FM protests).
As you've probably guessed by now, I would like to know what key combination (or other trick) I have to use to be able to somehow type or enter the special characters into my document? Or am I stuck with copy-and-paste from the charmap?

Regards, Mikael Persson!
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