From: angico <angico@...>
Date: 2008-08-19T08:42:55+09:00
Subject: Re: accented letters

Em Ter, 2008-08-19 às 07:22 +0900, Axel Etzold escreveu:

> Dear Angico,
> 
> sorry, I misunderstood. You mean that you want to interact dynamically with
> FXRuby in some way, like ask the user some question and have the user's
> answer displayed ?
> It seems that depending on what OS you use, you can define a connection key (on the system,
> not in Ruby or FXRuby) so that accent+key are drawn together ... see here for Ubuntu:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-779463.html
> 
> To me ( I am not Brazilian or Portuguese) , the problem you are experiencing is somewhat surprising, as for instance in French or German, there are special keys that allow you to enter the whole letter in one go ... but the French don't have the tilde letters ~a and ~o ....
> maybe general Portuguese language programming forums can help you if the connection-key hint doesn't work ...
> I'd nevertheless like to know if it does.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Axel 

Hi, Axel.

I use Ubuntu Linux 8.04. All the applications I have installed on my
system work fine (OpenOffice.org does, JEdit does, Eclipse does,
Evolution does, etc.)

The only one that refuses to "understand" the key combinations is
exactly this one I'm working on: An FXRuby application. Also, as I
already stated, the application can display the text correctly. It just
can't make the combination.

So, I guess the problem is with Ruby.

The brazilian ABNT2 keyboard has only one special key: ç. The remaining
accented letters must be typed as a combination of a dead key (the
accent) followed by the actual letter key, as in ~a, which gives an ã.
But FXRuby's controls still don't accept or understand them.

Regards,

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