We understand that this problem is *extremely annoying*.
We are not giving up this problem. At best, we will find a workaround
for what we think is a bug in Apple Java. And at worst, we'll file a bug
report to Apple.
ELFAUNO wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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