In article <[email protected]>, Jean-Paul Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > I am starting an undergraduate course on Python 3.2.2 and I would like to use > the IDLE IDE on Mac Lion, as IDLE is actually cool for teaching. BUT I have > problems with some dead keys, for example to get the tilde char, by the > sequence "Alt-n <space>", the "Alt-n" moves the cursor on top of buffer > instead of displaying the ~ char ! The french input method seems to be > ignored which is strange in the Unicode times. I looked without success in > the Preferences/Key menu. Same for french circumflex e (ê) impossible to get > with the keyboard, etc. > IDLE is hardly usable with such behavior. It is strange that this bug seems > to be known for months but no remedy comes from the Python community :-( I > have not this problem with other IDE which are alas a bit too complex for > beginners (we wish the same IDE for all OS). > The course (250 students) will start in sept. 2012.
See the discussion here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/703430 Unfortunately, the problem is due to lack of support of Mac OS X input methods in the OS X versions of Tk. It needs to be fixed there but, as far as I know, it is not being worked on by anyone in the Tcl/Tk world. There is nothing that Python or IDLE can do to work around it. Perhaps you can add your support on the Tk bug tracker here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12997&atid=112997 -- Ned Deily, [email protected] _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
