Hi everyone,
I am a bit puzzled by the fact that I cannot enter Unicode insertion in-text mode (the Ctrl-Shift-U + code + Enter procedure) when writing within the Kate editor. I have Ubuntu Mate 15.10 but installed Kate since I really like it as an editor (never had any problem with Gnome or similar + Kate on top, until this Unicode glitch).

I do not insert Unicode chars so often so I cannot provide a version/system setup at which this started to happen, but definitely everything worked fine until February (I used to have ubuntu 14.10 and kept the packages updated).

I am also positive that the Unicode insertion works everywhere else in my system (shell, other editors, any text input box) and that if I copy-paste into Kate some text containing weird characters they are displayed correctly.

I found out that in Kate the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-U is be default the "make lowercase" macro, so I went to the configuration and disabled the key binding, but this did not help.

At the moment the only thing I can do is F7 -> type "char 0x<CODE>" -> Enter, which is a bit too much of a detour if you have to insert many characters along your text.

So: is there a way for Kate to simply inherit the Unicode standard insertion procedure from the OS?

I have Kate Version 15.08.2, and:
KDE Frameworks 5.15.0
Qt 5.4.2 (built against 5.4.2)
The xcb windowing system

Thanks for the attention,
Stefano