[Boa Constr] Re: =?iso-8859-15?Q?=5BBoa_Constr=5D_Re:_Impossible_to_use_a?= =?iso-8859-15?Q?ccented_letters_such_as_'=E3=F5=E9=E1'_w?= =?iso-8859-15?Q?ith_Boa.?=

[Marius v. W. <marius@e.co.za>]

On Sun, 02 May 2004 15:00:10 -0300, Jorge Godoy <go...@ie...> wrote:

> On Dom 02 Mai 2004 13:34, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
>
>> Hi Jorge,
>>
>> Can you be more specific, I don't have problem entering special
>> characters on the keyboard and/or using Alt-nnn (i.e. Alt-192 = À) which
>> shows correctly in Boa designer when I use it e.g. in a wxFrame title
>> field.
>>
>> See you
>> Werner
>>
>> P.S. I am using Boa 0.2.8 from CVS - but haven't updated for a view
>> weeks, will do it in a moment just to see.
>
> I'm running it on Linux and I press the "~" and "a" to get an "ã". I  
> don't
> use the numeric codes since it would be overkill and counterproductive to
> write portuguese :-)

As far as I know this is a module or option you specify in your XFree86  
config. Pretty cool in linux. But Windows (and OSX) has similar sortcuts  
to do this... I think you can set your "input locale" in windows to  
international which will enable similar functionality.

> I'll try the ALT-192 thing... And it didn't worked.

Try: Alt-0192 (For some reason I remember there was a four-digit code  
issue...)

>
> When I use other graphical symbols (such as "ª", "º", etc.) they appear  
> in
> gray.
>
>
> What specific details you want?
>
> My keyboard is a Brazilian ABNT 2, my KDE is configured to work with  
> pt_BR,
> using ISO-8859-1, I'm running Python 2.3.3 and wxPython 2.4.2.4.
>
> I can enter those chars correctly on wxGlade or my own wxPython
> applications, but I can't get them on Boa. If I try to cut & paste them,
> they don't show up at all.
>
> I just updated my CVS copy to do those tests for this message...
>
>
>
> Be seeing you,



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