Okay, I know this is a weird question, but I don't know how to even begin
addressing this issue. I appreciate your patience.
I have an application that includes a word processing component based on the
StyledTextCtrl. I have a user in Switzerland, using a French-Swiss
keyboard, on a Mac, transcribing in Italian. He complains that he cannot
produce a number of accented characters using the normal keys available on
his keyboard for these characters.
As far as I know, I have everything internationalized correctly. I haven't
received any complaints from other users, and I know I have users using
Italian (the translator for the Italian prompts uses a Mac) and I know I
have other users in Switzerland. I guess I don't know for sure if any of my
other Swiss users are using Italian.
Are there any suggestions for things I should pursue in figuring out how to
address this problem?
Anyone out there with a French-Swiss keyboard on a Mac willing to download
my Demo and Sample video, switch the interface to Italian, and try to type
some accented characters, just so I can know whether the problem is my
software or the user's computer? I'll be happy to talk you through the
steps using Skype-chat to minimize your time commitment.
David K. Woods, Ph.D.
Researcher, Transana Lead Developer
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
University of Wisconsin, Madison
http://www.transana.org
David Woods wrote:
Okay, I know this is a weird question, but I don't know how to even begin
addressing this issue. I appreciate your patience.
I have an application that includes a word processing component based on the
StyledTextCtrl. I have a user in Switzerland, using a French-Swiss
keyboard, on a Mac, transcribing in Italian. He complains that he cannot
produce a number of accented characters using the normal keys available on
his keyboard for these characters.
As far as I know, I have everything internationalized correctly. I haven't
received any complaints from other users, and I know I have users using
Italian (the translator for the Italian prompts uses a Mac) and I know I
have other users in Switzerland. I guess I don't know for sure if any of my
other Swiss users are using Italian.
Are there any suggestions for things I should pursue in figuring out how to
address this problem?
Anyone out there with a French-Swiss keyboard on a Mac willing to download
my Demo and Sample video, switch the interface to Italian, and try to type
some accented characters, just so I can know whether the problem is my
software or the user's computer? I'll be happy to talk you through the
steps using Skype-chat to minimize your time commitment.
David K. Woods, Ph.D.
Researcher, Transana Lead Developer
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
University of Wisconsin, Madison
http://www.transana.org
I've never messed with internationalization, but the wiki mentioned that you may need to set either the correct ISO code of the charset to utf-8 to get accented characters: RecipesI18n - wxPyWiki
Of course, if you're already doing that, then I'll be no help to you...
Mike
David Woods wrote:
> Okay, I know this is a weird question, but I don't know how to even
> begin addressing this issue. I appreciate your patience.
>
> I have an application that includes a word processing
component based
> on the StyledTextCtrl. I have a user in Switzerland, using a
> French-Swiss keyboard, on a Mac, transcribing in Italian. He
> complains that he cannot produce a number of accented
characters using
> the normal keys available on his keyboard for these characters.
>
> As far as I know, I have everything internationalized correctly. I
> haven't received any complaints from other users, and I know I have
> users using Italian (the translator for the Italian prompts uses a
> Mac) and I know I have other users in Switzerland. I guess I don't
> know for sure if any of my other Swiss users are using Italian.
>
> Are there any suggestions for things I should pursue in
figuring out
> how to address this problem?
>
> Anyone out there with a French-Swiss keyboard on a Mac willing to
> download my Demo and Sample video, switch the interface to Italian,
> and try to type some accented characters, just so I can
know whether
> the problem is my software or the user's computer? I'll be
happy to
> talk you through the steps using Skype-chat to minimize your time
> commitment.
I've never messed with internationalization, but the wiki
mentioned that
you may need to set either the correct ISO code of the
charset to utf-8
to get accented characters: RecipesI18n - wxPyWiki
Of course, if you're already doing that, then I'll be no help
to you...
Yeah, I already use utf-8. (I actually contributed the original sample app
to that wiki page years ago when I was trying to get i18n sorted out
originally.)
Accented characters work for me on my US keyboard using the standard
American keyboard shortcuts for Mac for producing the accented characters.
I've seen my software work with Korean and Chinese, which suggests to me
that I got the i18n stuff at least mostly right.
Thanks for the response though.
David
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Hello,
Okay, I know this is a weird question, but I don't know how to even begin
addressing this issue. I appreciate your patience.
I have an application that includes a word processing component based on the
StyledTextCtrl. I have a user in Switzerland, using a French-Swiss
keyboard, on a Mac, transcribing in Italian. He complains that he cannot
produce a number of accented characters using the normal keys available on
his keyboard for these characters.
As far as I know, I have everything internationalized correctly. I haven't
received any complaints from other users, and I know I have users using
Italian (the translator for the Italian prompts uses a Mac) and I know I
have other users in Switzerland. I guess I don't know for sure if any of my
other Swiss users are using Italian.
Are there any suggestions for things I should pursue in figuring out how to
address this problem?
Anyone out there with a French-Swiss keyboard on a Mac willing to download
my Demo and Sample video, switch the interface to Italian, and try to type
some accented characters, just so I can know whether the problem is my
software or the user's computer? I'll be happy to talk you through the
steps using Skype-chat to minimize your time commitment.
I have also run into this and am yet to find the solution. There seems to be some issues with the mac keyboards on French and Spanish keyboards (maybe more).
see:http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/9663
Cody,
I can’t tell if it’s the same issue. My user can’t produce accented characters, such as ò, ì, and ù. That seems a little more basic than what’s in the bug report. The keys you describe having trouble with require the “Alt Gr” key while these characters don’t, I don’t think. (I admit, I’m a bit out of my comfort zone here, though.)
Hopefully one of our European colleagues will offer some insight.
David
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:56 PM, David Woods dwoods@wcer.wisc.edu > wrote: