Here's a compatibility problem with the Win98 keyboard. I've been testing a new keyboard manager utility on my system: Keyman 5.0 beta, from www.tavultesoft.com. This utility allows you to define custom keyboard layouts and install them alongside the Windows ones. Keyman keyboards appear in the same taskbar menu alongside with the system keyboards and can be switched to using the same hotkeys. Trying to switch to such a keyboard in Abiword 0.7.13 will irretrievably freeze Abiword. Keyman 5.0 is the first Keyman version to support Unicode (using the WM_UNICHAR message instead of WM_CHAR.) Apparently, when activating a keyboard it will address the active application in some way to find out whether it supports WM_UNICHAR or not so it can use a fallback mechanism in the latter case. I imagine Abiword hangs at that point. It doesn't happen with any other application I've tested in Win98. Keyman isn't open-source, so I can't tell you what exactly is going on. I'll report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too, of course. If anybody wants to look into it they might want to get into contact with them too. I'll post this in Bugzilla too. Thanks, Lukas ----------------------------------------------------- Lukas Pietsch University of Freiburg English Department Phone (p.) (#49) (761) 696 37 23 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
