I think you're asking a lot of users, just to avoid doing something that other programs offer. If it's so problematic, why do other programs do it?
Digital Unleashed wrote:
On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 16:22, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
I know that Inkscape differs from InDesign _a lot_, but the thing I like about ID is that its text frame's pop-up menu has a couple of submenus for inserting special characters like (C), (R), and different types of quotation marks. Scribus (1.3cvs) has such submenus now as well, but in main application's menu Insert.
Would it be a good idea to add such a functionality to Inkscape?
I don't speak for anyone on the Inkscape team, but personally, I'd rather not see this in Inkscape. Your OS almost certainly already provides that feature. And, since international unicode character sets consist of tens of thousands of characters, any attempt by inkscape to reproduce that functionality would be very limited by comparison.
Have a look around your OS for a "character selection" utility, or something similar. Also, if you're using X windows, lookup the details for xmodmap, which will let you map copyright to AltGr-c or whatever key you want.