Thank you, I understand your explanations.
I've been trying to make some bindings to those special keys ("DEAD_ACUTE" and
other
dead keys ) without sucess. The only way it works is with ESCAPE key... like in
your
customize.xxe file
Thanks for everything
----- Mensaje Original -----
De: Hussein Shafie <hussein at pixware.fr>
Fecha: Lunes, Marzo 8, 2004 10:23 am
Asunto: Re: [XXE] Re: Fwd: No spanish tilde can be typed.
> ELFAUNO wrote:
> >>>I can not write spanish words with tilde like ?????. I normally
> >>
> >>do it by two keystrokes [?a ], but it looks
> >>
> >>>like xmleditor is not understanding the keyboard map... The
> >>
> >>alternative of choosing the
> >>
> >>>caracter from the table is too slow.
> >>
> >>It is probably a Java (or a even a Mac) problem, that is, it is
> >>probably
> >>not specific to XXE.
>
> We are always happy to fix our own bugs but in your case, *we
> simply
> cannot believe this is a bug in XXE*. Here is why:
>
> With a spanish keyboard, you type "'" (dead acute) and then "a" and
> you
> want to have an "?".
>
> With a French keyboard, when I type "^" (dead circumflex) and then
> "o",
> I want to have an "?". It is *exactly* the same problem.
>
> In XXE, in the case of the French keyboard and the "?" character:
>
> * It works on Windows.
>
> * It works on Linux.
>
> * It does not work on the Mac (even with Java 1.4.2 on MacOSX 10.3!)
>
> * It is the same code on all platforms.
>
> * XXE has no knowledge about the fact that dead "^" plus "o" gives
> "?".That this, there is no special logic for that which could be
> buggy (no
> special logic is needed because it is the job of the underlying
> graphics
> environment -- AWT -- to generate an "?" when "^" then "o" are typed.)
>
>
> >
> > Many other Java Apps work correctly with this equipment
>
> * Many Java apps still use Java 1.3 on Mac. (Both 1.4 and 1.3 Java
> runtimes are available on the Mac.) May be there is no problem with
> Java
> 1.3.
>
> * Some Java apps may contain Mac-specific bug workarounds.
>
>
>
