3.10 - Mac OS X Leopard - accent chars and keyboard input

danil osipchuk danil.osipchuk at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 16:58:07 UTC 2008


2008/2/7, José Luis Redrejo <jredrejo at gmail.com>:
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> 2008/2/7, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> >
> > danil osipchuk wrote:
> > > As to me, I have to say that keyboard input is not handled perfectly
> > or
> > > at least consistently accross different VM platforms (I ended with
> > > distinct InputInterpeters for linux and windows for Russian), but I
> > > managed to get it working.
> >
> > What did you have to change on Windows? The Windows VM should not report
> > dead keys itself but rather the composed character, e.g., typing umlaut
> > and then a should result directly in ä. Does this work for you or did
> > you have to change something?
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>

I didn't check this  (that thread was about linux). See another mail about
changes I did (they are not so big but inconsistent with linux).

That's exactly what the unix vm doesn't do and should do. As I told in a
> previous mail, it did it in the past when UTF-8 was not used in the machine
> locales. Now, even in that case it fails. It seems that ,after some work was
> done in the vm to get selections and copy & paste working with UTF-8, the
> keyboard input resulted totally broken in the unix vm.
>
>
> Yes, this is the question - should the VM handle this or not?

cheers
  Danil
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