Hi folks! I am very new to Inkscape, not a professional, just playing around to amuse myself. One of my first little projects was a simple replacement of text in an image. I was very pleased with the result! However, when I posted it it, someone kindly pointed out that I had used a backtick instead of an apostrophe. Here, the first is the desired, the second is with the backtick (below @ on my keyboard)

I am aware of Unicodes and ascii codes, and that the symbol I needed was ALT+0146 or Unicode U+2019
I spent a miserable hour trying to work out how to do this in Inkscape, I eventually found a clunky workaround.


There must surely be a better way? In particular, how and where do I enter the code? Above I had to create some text, select it, find the glyphs dialogue, select a different charset wthin the font, find in the tiny preview the precise symbol, paste it (append) and then jiggle about in the text box.

Here is the first effort, I have not actually redone it with the correct apostrophe!

wakou2 wrote:I spent a miserable hour trying to work out how to do this in Inkscape...

Maybe the latest version does not have this link, but in 0.92.2 it takes about a minute or two this way:




Have a nice day.
TD

Thank you, @tylerdurden, for the excellent reply. It will be very useful. Whilst waiting for post approval, I eventually managed to find a better way than my first efforts, using the manual and other resources. Unfortunately I was hampered, as usual, by being an idiot (1)
And by my computer being an even greater idiot(2).
The way I soved it was to make the text object active, making sure that the insertion point is where you want the symbol.
Press CTRL+U enter the unicode number for the symbol(3)
Then ENTER. Here are some examples (playing around this morning):




I am on 0.92.4.

1 My keyboard had somehow decided to switch off the notification of NUMLOCK being on/off, so I was madly bashing away with no result
2 Even when I had reset the driver to notify, this morning it had stopped again, result, as in (1). And then even when I was SURE 100%, that NUMLOCK was ON, it did not work with the numberpad. IDK why. This DOES work beautifully using the number keys above the qwerty,
3 list of unicodes here for example, there are many others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U ... characters

It seems the numpad is not used for unicode in Inkscape. I tested in Win 8.1 and Linux Mint.