Any other text input field in Ubuntu allows me to press Ctrl+Shift+U and then type in a Unicode character code followed by Enter to get the special character. Trying to do so in RStudio doesn't work, it takes the character code as plain text instead. I verified that some keyboard shortcut was mappe…

Can you try once more with the preview release of RStudio?

Thanks for the bug report. IIUC, this is because we're not setting the Qt input method. Running RStudio with e.g. export QT_IM_MODULE='ibus' /usr/lib/rstudio/bin/rstudio brings in this behavior. We'll see if there's a way we can discover the active input method and ensure that's respected within R…

Calling export -p shows that declare -x QT_IM_MODULE='ibus' is already set up. I called the export command again to be sure but the problem remains.

Are you launching RStudio from your shell, or through another mechanism? RStudio Desktop doesn't launch R sessions through a shell and so won't read any environment variables set or exported in e.g. a .bash_profile.

I've tried launching from shell and the software app. The issue persists across all methods.

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Can't enter special characters via Unicode character code in Ubuntu (ctrl+shift+u)

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