[Bf-taskforce25] Dead Keys mapping

[joe]

I believe bdiego and elubie have worked on this sort of stuff in the
past.  I've had a little experience with input schemes like this at
work, and it is a pain, especially since blender's support of utf-8
isn't all that great.

Anyway, google search found a page that mentioned this function:

http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.1/doc/XmbLookupString.3.html

which is supposed to handle that sort of stuff for you.  since we use
utf8 strings, you'd want to use the Xutf8LookupString  version of it.

The low-level X event handling stuff is in intern/ghost, specifically
intern/ghost/GHOST_SystemX11.c.  From what I gather, you have to
replace usage of XLookupString with Xutf8LookupString  in some manner.

original article I found (may be outdated, who knows):
http://gwyn.tux.org/~balsa/linux/deadkeys/index.html

Anyway, hope this helps.

Joe

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Sven von Brand
<svbrand at alumnos.inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> I was looking the bug tracker and I found one I forgot some time ago.
> I'm from Chile so I speak Spanish and do some workshops with special
> Blender files with notations in the text Area. My problem with this Area
> is that it doesn't support dead keys, making it very "painful" to make
> anything involving the letter ñ or any letter with a ´ like á. This is
> also the case in the 3D window, where I usually look for the character
> in the character list, but it is not the best way of doing it.
>
> I'm not sure if this problems occurs in all platforms but at least in
> Linux I have this problem.
>
> I would like to know if there are plans to make changes in the text
> input to include this functionality, and if not, if someone could point
> me in the right direction to make these changes myself and hopefully help.
>
> Greetings
> --
> Sven von Brand Laredo
> Estudiante de Ing. Civil Informatica, UTFSM
> Fedora Ambassador for Chile
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