On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Some Friend <some-fri...@web.de> wrote: > Dear Friends, > with an international keyboard on mac os 10.6 > an umlaut is inserted according to the chosen > keyboard layout with alt + u followed by a, > o or u for ä, ö or ü, or with cmd + " followed > by a, o or u for ä, ö or ü. Neither way works > in the IDLE console or file window of IDLE. > Both ways work on the python console in a terminal > window. > > IDLE version 3.2.2, Phyton version 3.2.2 and > Tk version 8.5 according to IDLE -> "About IDLE". > > Names of the keyboard layouts: > "US" and "US International - PC" > > Thank y'll for any Help > --
This issue came up a few weeks ago too. The conclusion was that it's a bug in the Cocoa version of Tcl/Tk so there's unfortunately not much that can be done from the Python side. https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c7f22b059c68452a/85d11aa8f4b8b3c1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
