Yo!

> To reproduce the error I figure out that you may use any keyboard settings that
> use a dead key to produce accented characthers. I am a Brazilian-Portuguese
> user and my keyboard is configured as us-international kb (see, it is not a
> Brazilian or Portuguese kb). I don't know if locales has anything to do with the
> problem. I don't think so, but as an info, my system runs under
> Brazilian-locales (pt_Br).  The bug happens when you type any accent following
> by a letter into a entry widget: for instance, you will get an "~a" instead an
> "�".  You can try to reproduce it in Pgaccess, Visual Tcl, or anything that has
> a Tcl/Tk entry widget. Try it and tell me if you got it.
>
> I found some info about a patch or a fix (to Czech language) at Tcl/Tk site and
> in the related newsgroup (sorry, but I can't remember where). As I feel it
> somewhat complicated to patch my system just now, I reinstaled the old Tcl/Tk
> and Postgres. Anyway, I think that this problem will affect other accented
> languages users, so I posted my experience to alert you, also hoping that
> someone has a easy soluction to this bug.

As an English user, I would need to take a look at ...


I don't have much time before 7.2 ... I will try my best. Meanwhile if you have time,
try looking for a patch against the tcltk to see if you can locate some
patches of any sort that I can apply. I will also try to look for any
such patches ..

Thx.

--
Geoff


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