Thank you again, Mathieu! I'll give it a try. I was testing on Windows so far but I actually need it on Linux. So it looks like a good idea to figure it out on the OS I'll need it to use on since it seems to be different on every platform.
Ingo > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Mathieu Bouchard [mailto:ma...@artengine.ca] > Gesendet: Samstag, 17. April 2010 19:03 > An: Ingo Scherzinger > Cc: pd-list@iem.at > Betreff: Re: AW: [PD] how to type more than one "space" in GEM with [text2d] > > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Ingo Scherzinger wrote: > > > I tried to input them with [ALT+CTL+space] but pd doesn't accept that. > > What's a proper method of typing "non-breaking spaces" inside of pd or > > typing them into a standard textfile so pd can read them? > > There are several ways. This is OS-dependent and charset-dependent. I > found Pd 0.41 to be typing in iso-latin-1 in Tk on OSX, but using utf-8 on > Linux, while on OSX, utf-8 chars of Pd files are still correctly read, or > something like that. > > loading GridFlow fixes half of the problem of typing characters on Linux > (really), but for a full fix, you'd need to apply a fix that has been > published some months ago and that is being left out of Pd. I don't know > why this problem is specific to Linux, and if instead it has to do with > the version of Tk, it could be a cross-platform problem eventually... > > Back to Unicode now... If I send a «194 160» list-message to [#to_symbol], > i get an invisible symbol, that you can add to a message-box using a «add2 > $1» message-box. But there are other ways. I think I loaded the pd file in > a text editor or hex editor... or that I found the key for it... but the > key is OS-dependent, and then, it's also keyboard-layout dependent. > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard, Montréal, Québec. téléphone: +1.514.383.3801 _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list