Re: [Aspell-user] Inserting accented characters in replace mode

[Clytie Siddall]

On 04/09/2006, at 10:03 PM, Eric Guindon wrote:

> Clytie,
> Thanks for your reply. I'm running Ubuntu Linux and writing with a
> (modified) Canadian multilingual keyboard layout; my default terminal
> font is monospace (11pt if that matters).
>
> I don't run any Gt-apps, so at least we know the problem isn't there.

I'm interested in your modified keyboard layout, since my problem  
with Qt _only_ occurs with a Unicode Vietnamese layout I've modified  
myself [1]. My standard Unicode Vietnamese layouts are fine in the  
same situation.

If the display is OK using the same font, the font shouldn't be the  
issue. But if your problem is similar to my issue, the modifications  
to the keyboard layout look like being a factor.

Unfortunately, I don't know enough about input systems to work out  
why. When you modified your layout, did that change the way it  
identified itself to the input application?

Many applications still don't have Unicode as their default encoding.  
That can result in some inputs being defaulted back to Latin-1 (or  
MacRoman, on Macs), which, if they're Unicode layouts, can mess up  
the input.

(Some input situations in X11 on OSX, for example, look like the  
underlying system is on LSD.)

Perhaps the aspell developer(s) can comment on how a modified layout  
would interact with their software. I certainly haven't had any  
trouble with my modified layout inputting into CocoAspell, but that's  
an OSX frontend for aspell, so I'm not dealing directly with the  
aspell software.

I'm always interested in input problems, though: Unicode support is  
improving, but we still have  holes in the infrastructure.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

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