How to type RLE character in KDE?

[Dotan Cohen]

On 3 March 2010 17:35, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman at hashkedim.com> wrote:
> At 11:12:35 on Wednesday Wednesday 03 March 2010, Dotan Cohen
> <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3 March 2010 11:03, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > In lack of a better solution, you can always launch gucharmap, select
>> > the requested (zero-width) character, and then do cut and paste.
>>
>> If I could easily bookmark the character, then that would be a decent
>> workaround. However, at the moment it is too cumbersome.
>>
>> KDE did once have an easy way of adding arbitrary characters that were
>> saved in  Kcharselect however that was removed for KDE4:
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190776
>
> Yet another reason for avoiding KDE4 like the plague.
>
> I've solved my own ₪ problem, as well as lots of other symbols I use from
> time to time, by installing both the charselect applet (the few most
> frequetly used symbols) and the kcharacterselector application (for the
> availability of any others for which an odd need crops up) in my second
> panel. That was a suggestion by Duncan (last name forgotten, sorry), for
> which I am grateful.

Is that on KDE 3, KDE 4, or Gnome? Can you provide a link to the
charselect applet? I am googling but I cannot find it. Thanks.

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