11-29-2022, 01:47 PM
Thanks for this. Copying from the clipboard was what I needed. There is a frustrating bug in my version of GIMP (2.10) wherein I can't copy text from within GIMP and then paste it within GIMP (so, if i'm working in a text box and need another instance of some complex phrase I've already typed [say, with a bunch of diacritics--the diacritic functionality of my MacOS keyboard doesn't work in GIMP for whatever reason], I can't copy it and paste it within GIMP, I have to copy it from GIMP, paste it into a non-GIMP app [like TextEdit], and then copy it from there and paste it back into GIMP). The long and short of it is that I think I was "importing" the wrong characters _from_ GIMP into my text editor, and then confused why they weren't magically the "right" characters when I pasted them back into GIMP (if that makes sense...). Thanks again.
U+xxxx is the standard Unicode notation when you want to unambiguously talk about a specific character that may or may not be displayable by your readers (lack of proper fonts...). Call it the character's serial number... It also allow you to [utl=https://unicodeplus.com/U+201C]find information about that given character|/url]. But it won't be replaced by the character itself in text applications.
In modern OSes (Windows, Linux, OSX) the clipboard will contain unicode characters so that you can copy:paste unicode text between applications (you can even copy/paste emojis these days...)
What I want to see is the screenshot when you copy-paste the <“>. Wha you can try also is use your "smart quotes" in your word processor and then copy-paste the text from the WP to Gimp.
Otherwise what font is this and what are the character codes for your "smart quotes"?
U+xxxx is the standard Unicode notation when you want to unambiguously talk about a specific character that may or may not be displayable by your readers (lack of proper fonts...). Call it the character's serial number... It also allow you to [utl=https://unicodeplus.com/U+201C]find information about that given character|/url]. But it won't be replaced by the character itself in text applications.
In modern OSes (Windows, Linux, OSX) the clipboard will contain unicode characters so that you can copy:paste unicode text between applications (you can even copy/paste emojis these days...)
What I want to see is the screenshot when you copy-paste the <“>. Wha you can try also is use your "smart quotes" in your word processor and then copy-paste the text from the WP to Gimp.
Otherwise what font is this and what are the character codes for your "smart quotes"?