Making unicode characters on a US keyboard

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 December 2013 21:50, Paul Sladen <ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
>> As noted in:
>>
>>   http://askubuntu.com/questions/31258/how-can-i-type-an-em-dash
>>
>> There are two options; ether:
>>
>>   a. ctrl+shift+u (and continue to hold ctrl+shift),
>>      type number,
>>      release ctrl+shift
>>
>> or:
>>
>>   b. ctrl+shift+u (releasing ctrl+shift),
>>      type number,
>>      press enter or space
>
> Really, seriously, folks, there is a much much easier way that doesn't
> require you to remember any numbers or codes at all.

Method a only works sometimes.  The rest of the time, holding down
ctl-shift seems to cause weird stuff to happen on the screen.

And Liam, is this much much easier way something I can do in Xubuntu?

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