[Bf-committers] Windows dead key accented characters

[Alexandr Kuznetsov]

Yep. I was describing IME. Hopefully I soon will have a time to 
implement it.

On 2/19/2013 11:30 PM, panjz wrote:
> There are no dead keys in Chinese language keyboard, we use IME instead
>
>> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:42:21 -0500
>> From: kuzsasha at gmail.com
>> To: harley at hacheson.com; bf-committers at blender.org
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Windows dead key accented characters
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Seems good.
>> I will test it and apply it on Thursday after release.
>>
>> Best,
>> Alex
>>
>> P.S.
>> I was looking to support other languages like Chinese. It is more
>> complicated then deadkeys as each new character can completely change
>> the word. Typing should be context aware of text field.
>>
>> On 2/19/2013 1:12 PM, Harley Acheson wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Bug #33678<http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=33678&group_id=9&atid=498>seems
>>> fairly important. Windows users with "international" keyboard layouts
>>> can't enter some common characters, like quote and double-quote, into the
>>> text editor.
>>> Needless to say this would make it pretty hard to work with python files.
>>>
>>> These keyboard layouts have "dead keys" that you press to alter the key
>>> that follows. For
>>> example the "US (International)" keyboard layout allows you to press the
>>> double-quote key
>>> and then "e" to get an "e" with a umlaut, or the "^" then "e" to get an "e"
>>> with a circumflex.
>>> The only downside is that you (usually) have to press that dead key twice
>>> to get the actual
>>> key (the double-quote or caret in these examples).  Our current text
>>> processing does not
>>> support the entry of accented characters when these types of keyboard
>>> layouts are selected.
>>> In fact in those cases the dead character is swallowed up, so you can't
>>> enter a double-quote
>>> character at all.
>>>
>>> The fix is simple and straight-forward, but has been on the patch tracker
>>> for a while now...
>>> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=33709&group_id=9&atid=127
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers, Harley
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