Description: It is not possible anymore to enter Alt-keycodes due to the newly introduced Alt+number shorcuts. For example, Alt+0128 is the keycode for the Euro (€) symbol, but upon attempting to enter this code, all kind of sidebars appear and switch. The impossibility to sue the Alt-keycodes renders LibreOffice Writer practically unusable. Imagine, how many symbols have to be entered (like ½, ®, ±), not mentioning the different accented characters on different languages. This Insert symbol dialog or copy/paste symbols from elsewhere is extremely counter-productive, it is for people who rarely use symbols or don't know anything about Alt-keycodes. Those who used Alt-keycodes for decades, it is a real headache, how comes that developers of LO aren't aware that such common functionality is broken... ? Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a new document. 2. Try to enter the an ANSI symbol by typing Alt+numeric-keycode (eg. degree, Alt+0176) Actual Results: Nothing is written, but all kind of dockers appear and switch. Expected Results: Enter the desired symbol, like in ALL (practically all) applications on Windows. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: [Information automatically included from LibreOffice] Locale: en-US Module: TextDocument [Information guessed from browser] OS: Windows (All) OS is 64bit: no
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 158112 ***
(In reply to Szasz-Fabian Jozsef from comment #0) > 2. Try to enter the an ANSI symbol by typing Alt+numeric-keycode (eg. > degree, Alt+0176) ... But indeed, it would be reasonable to consider a better method (available both in LibreOffice, and e.g. in MS Word), which is typing the widely-known hexadecimal Unicode of the symbol: U+B0, then pressing Alt+X. In unambiguous cases, it's even enough to type B0 (without U+), and then Alt+X. The decimal codes is just a legacy from pre-Unicode era (even though I have implemented full Unicode range for Alt codes now). The method is available since LibreOffice 5.1: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.1#Unicode_character_input_with_Alt_+_X