#2262 Tilde cannot be typed w Finnish keyboard

[Anonymous]

With Finnish keyboard tilde (~) is a "dead key", i.e.
pressing it once does not produce anything. You need to
press additionally space to get the tilde.

Furthermore, the tilde is "hidden under" Alt-Gr, i.e.
to get the tilde you need to press both Alt-gr and '¨'
(diaresis/umlaut) -key.

Now, no matter what I type, jEdit will not produce ~.
The other dead keys (e.g. `´¨^) do not have the problem,
so I think this is somehow related to Alt-Gr. OTOH
"normal" characters (e.g. {[]}) under Alt-Gr do work.

I am usimg Windows 2000/SP4 & java 1.5.0-b64.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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In Linux situation is even worse: none of the dead keys work.

I am using Fedora Core 2 and java 1.5.0-b64.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I cannot get tilde(~) to work att all in jedit 4.2 but all
other character seems to work ok.

Using java 1.5.0-b64 on WinXP and Swedish keyboard.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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With Debian GNU/Linux (sarge, 2.6.8 kernel) and
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build
1.5.0-b64)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-b64, mixed mode,
sharing)

I am unable to use tilde nor the ^ or in jEdit.
Other altgr-keys like mentioned above ([,],{ and } for
example) work just fine.

Keyboard tester's output

AltGr + tildekey =>
Event
KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x87,keyChar=0xffff,modifiers=0x20 passed

tildekey alone =>
Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0x87,keyChar=0xffff,modifiers=0x0
passed

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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This is probably related to Java bug #4799499

I have written a workaround for this, after my tests pass
on both Linux and Windows, I will send it to Slava.

[kgc]

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Regarding the comment about the situation in Linux, I found
myself unable to type ^, | and ~ (and maybe some others) on
my danish keyboard where these are Alt Gr characters (but
some other Alt Gr charaters worked). I then discovered that
adding:

Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"

to the "keyboard" section in my /etc/X11/XF86Config solved
the problem. I can now write the aforementioned characters
by typing Alt Gr plus the character (no space needed). Maybe
someone can use this information?

I'm running RedHat 9 and jEdit 4.2final

Best regards

Kasper

[Alan Ezust]

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Please try "simplified keyboard handling" in general options
of jedit 4.3pre6 and see if you have the same problem.

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[Lari Hotari]

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The same problem still exists in jEdit 4.3pre4 + Sun Java 1.5.0_06-b05 on WinXP.